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  • ON LANGUAGE
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    ON LANGUAGE
    NOAM CHOMSKY
    The two most popular titles by the noted linguist and critic in one volume—an ideal introduction to his work.   On Language features some of Noam Chomsky’s most informal and highly accessible work. In Part I, Language and Responsibility, Chomsky presents a fascinating self-portrait of his political, moral, and linguistic thinking. In Part II, Reflections on Language, Chomsky ex...

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  • VIVIANE
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    VIVIANE
    JULIA DECK
    Winner of the inaugural French Voices Award: “[A] masterfully conceived debut, arelentless tale, intricately and irresistibly told” (La Quinzaine Littéraire).   Only once in a great while does a new novel come along that takes a literary scene by storm, demonstrating real innovation in the craft of storytelling. Julia Deck provides this force in Viviane—the first debut novel in...

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  • THE NEW BLUE MEDIA
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    THE NEW BLUE MEDIA
    THEODORE HAMM
    A look at the journalists and satirists who’ve helped transform the political landscape in the twenty-first century.   The New Blue Media traces the rise during the Bush years of new media stars: the news-saturated satire of The Onion, The Daily Show, and The Colbert Report; the polemical assaults of Michael Moore and Air America; and the instant-messaging politics of MoveOn, D...

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  • THE MARTIN DUBERMAN READER
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    THE MARTIN DUBERMAN READER
    MARTIN DUBERMAN
    “A wonderful introduction to Duberman’s writing but is also a fitting tribute to a man who has devoted his life to promoting social change” (Publishers Weekly).   For the past fifty years, prize-winning historian Martin Duberman’s groundbreaking writings have established him as one of our preeminent public intellectuals. Founder of the first graduate program in LGBT studies in ...

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  • EXTREMELY LOUD
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    EXTREMELY LOUD
    JULIETTE VOLCLER
    “Everything you ever suspected or feared about music as a weapon, sound as torture . . . Disturbingly illuminating in the possible ramifications” (Kirkus Reviews).   In this troubling and wide-ranging account, acclaimed journalist Juliette Volcler looks at the long history of efforts by military and police forces to deploy sound against enemies, criminals, and law-abiding citiz...

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  • HOLD FAST TO DREAMS
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    HOLD FAST TO DREAMS
    BETH ZASLOFF / JOSHUA STECKEL
    An “invaluable” memoir by a counselor who left the elite private-school world to help poor and working-class kids get into college (Washington Monthly).   Winner of the Studs and Ida Terkel Award   Joshua Steckel left an elite Manhattan school to serve as the first-ever college guidance counselor at a Brooklyn public high school—and has helped hundreds of disadvantaged kids gai...

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  • A NEW LEAF
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    A NEW LEAF
    ALYSON MARTIN / NUSHIN RASHIDIAN
    Two award-winning journalists offer a “cogent, well-sourced and ambitious analysis of the slow decline of cannabis prohibition in the United States” (Kirkus Reviews).   In November 2012, voters in Colorado and Washington passed landmark measures to legalize the production and sale of cannabis for social use—a first in the United States and the world. Once vilified as a “gateway...

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  • THE SELF BEYOND ITSELF
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    THE SELF BEYOND ITSELF
    HEIDI M. RAVVEN
    “Intertwines history, philosophy, and science . . . A powerful challenge to conventional notions of individual responsibility” (Publishers Weekly).   Few concepts are more unshakable in our culture than free will, the idea that individuals are fundamentally in control of the decisions they make, good or bad. And yet the latest research about how the brain functions seems to poi...

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  • THE WORLD ACCORDING TO MONSANTO
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    THE WORLD ACCORDING TO MONSANTO
    MARIE-MONIQUE ROBIN
    An investigation of the massive agribusiness company, from a winner of the Rachel Carson Prize: “Well supported by wide-ranging scientific evidence.” —Kirkus Reviews   The result of a remarkable three-year-long investigation that took award-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker Marie-Monique Robin across four continents, The World According to Monsanto tells the little-k...

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  • KILL KHALID
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    KILL KHALID
    PAUL MCGEOUGH
    “Meticulously researched . . . This is the definitive chronicle of the Middle East crisis during the Clinton years and in the post-9/11 era” (Publishers Weekly).   “Providing a fly-on-the-wall vantage of the rising diplomatic panic that sent shudders through world capitals,” Kill Khalid unfolds as a masterpiece of investigative journalism (Toronto Star). In 1997, the Israeli in...

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  • GONE TOMORROW
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    GONE TOMORROW
    HEATHER ROGERS
    “A galvanizing exposé” of America’s trash problem from plastic in the ocean to “wasteful packaging, bogus recycling, and flawed landfills and incinerators” (Booklist, starred review).   Eat a take-out meal, buy a pair of shoes, or read a newspaper, and you’re soon faced with a bewildering amount of garbage. The United States is the planet’s number-one producer of trash. Each Am...

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  • THE DECLINE OF AMERICAN POWER
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    THE DECLINE OF AMERICAN POWER
    IMMANUEL WALLERSTEIN
    The internationally renowned theorist contends that the sun is setting on the American empire in this “lucid, informed, and insightful” account (The New York Times).   The United States currently finds itself [a] superpower that lacks true power, a world leader nobody follows and few respect, and a nation drifting dangerously amidst a global chaos it cannot control.   The Unite...

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  • HARD TIMES
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    HARD TIMES
    STUDS TERKEL
    From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Good War: A masterpiece of modern journalism and “a huge anthem in praise of the American spirit” (Saturday Review).   In this “invaluable record” of one of the most dramatic periods in modern American history, Studs Terkel recaptures the Great Depression of the 1930s in all its complexity. Featuring a mosaic of memories from politi...

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  • IRAQ AND THE LESSONS OF VIETNAM
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    IRAQ AND THE LESSONS OF VIETNAM
    GARDNER, LLOYD C. / YOUNG, MARILYN B.
    Essays by Christian G. Appy, Andrew J. Bacevich, John Prados, and others offer “history at its best, meaning, at its most useful.” —Howard Zinn   From the launch of the “Shock and Awe” invasion in March 2003 through President George W. Bush’s declaration of “Mission Accomplished” two months later, the war in Iraq was meant to demonstrate definitively that the United States had ...

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  • FATAL INVENTION
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    FATAL INVENTION
    DOROTHY ROBERTS
    An incisive, groundbreaking book that examines how a biological concept of race is a myth that promotes inequality in a supposedly “post-racial” era.   Though the Human Genome Project proved that human beings are not naturally divided by race, the emerging fields of personalized medicine, reproductive technologies, genetic genealogy, and DNA databanks are attempting to resuscit...

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  • P.S.
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    P.S.
    STUDS TERKEL
    This “electrifying” collection of unpublished work demonstrates the Pulitzer Prize–winning author’s “great gift for tapping into the lifeblood of America” (Booklist).   Millions of Studs Terkel fans have come to know the prize-winning oral historian through his landmark books—“The Good War”, Hard Times, Working, Will the Circle Be Unbroken?, and many others. Few people realize,...

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  • HELL NO
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    HELL NO
    MICHAEL RATNER / MARGARET RATNER KUNSTLER
    “Compelling and useful reading” for activists, protest groups, and individuals, from America’s leading constitutional rights group (Booklist).   In the age of terrorism and under the current administration, the United States has become a much more dangerous place—for activists and dissenters, whose First Amendment rights are all too frequently abridged by the government.   In H...

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  • THE MONSTER AT OUR DOOR
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    THE MONSTER AT OUR DOOR
    MIKE DAVIS
    The MacArthur Fellow and author of Dead Cities presents a terrifying forecast of a new global threat—and “its argument is irrefutable” (The Independent).   Hailed by The Nation as a “master of disaster prose,” author and activist Mike Davis addresses the imminent catastrophe of Avian influenza. In 1918, a pandemic strain of influenza killed at least forty million people in thre...

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  • SAY IT PLAIN
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    SAY IT PLAIN
    ELLIS, CATHERINE / DRURY SMITH, STEPHEN
    A moving portrait of how black Americans have spoken out against injustice—with speeches by Thurgood Marshall, Shirley Chisholm, Jesse Jackson, and more.   In “full-throated public oratory, the kind that can stir the soul”, this unique anthology collects the transcribed speeches of the twentieth century’s leading African American cultural, literary, and political figures, many ...

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  • BEFORE THE FROST
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    BEFORE THE FROST
    HENNING MANKELL
    International bestseller: Kurt Wallander and his daughter join forces to hunt for a ritual killer in this “gripping, beautifully orchestrated” mystery (The New York Times Book Review).   Linda Wallander is bored. Having just graduated from the police academy, she’s waiting to start work with the Ystad police and move into her own apartment. In the meantime, she’s staying with h...

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  • FROM THE FOLKS WHO BROUGHT YOU THE WEEKEND
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    FROM THE FOLKS WHO BROUGHT YOU THE WEEKEND
    PRISCILLA MUROLO / A.B. CHITTY
    Newly updated: “An enjoyable introduction to American working-class history.” —The American Prospect   Praised for its “impressive even-handedness”, From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend has set the standard for viewing American history through the prism of working people (Publishers Weekly, starred review). From indentured servants and slaves in seventeenth-century Chesap...

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  • STUDS TERKEL'S CHICAGO
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    STUDS TERKEL'S CHICAGO
    STUDS TERKEL
    In a blend of history, memoir, and photography, the Pulitzer Prize winner paints a vivid portrait of this extraordinary American city.   Chicago was home to the country’s first skyscraper (a ten-story building built in 1884), and marks the start of the famed Route 66. It is also the birthplace of the remote control (Zenith) and the car radio (Motorola), and the first major Amer...

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  • THE PINOCHET FILE
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    THE PINOCHET FILE
    PETER KORNBLUH
    Revised and updated: the definitive primary-source history of US involvement in General Pinochet’s Chilean coup—“the evidence is overwhelming” (The New Yorker).   Published to commemorate the fortieth anniversary of General Augusto Pinochet’s infamous September 11, 1973, military coup in Chile, this updated edition of The Pinochet File reveals the shocking, formerly secret reco...

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  • OUT OF SIGHT
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    OUT OF SIGHT
    ERIK LOOMIS
    A provocative analysis of labor, globalization, and environmental harm by the award-winning historian and author of A History of America in Ten Strikes.   In the current state of our globalized economy, corporations have no incentive to protect their workers or the environment. Jobs moves seamlessly across national borders while the laws that protect us from rapacious behavior ...

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  • CUSTOMS IN COMMON
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    CUSTOMS IN COMMON
    E. P. THOMPSON
    The “meticulously researched, elegantly argued and deeply humane” sequel to the landmark volume of social history, The Making of the English Working Class (The New York Times Book Review).   This remarkable study investigates the gradual disappearance of a range of cultural customs against the backdrop of the great upheavals of the eighteenth century. As villagers were subjecte...

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  • THE SPIRIT OF '74
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    THE SPIRIT OF '74
    RAY RAPHAEL / MARIE RAPHAEL
    How ordinary people went from resistance to revolution: “[A] concise, lively narrative . . . the authors expertly build tension.” —Publishers Weekly   Americans know about the Boston Tea Party and “the shot heard ’round the world,” but sixteen months divided these two iconic events, a period that has nearly been lost to history. The Spirit of ’74 fills in this gap in our nation...

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  • FROM CAIRO TO WALL STREET
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    FROM CAIRO TO WALL STREET
    ANYA SCHIFFRIN AND EAMON KIRCHER-ALLEN
    “The first essential text of a new and remarkably dynamic era of social activism that has already brought profound change to the world.” —Bob Herbert   Something was in the air in 2011, as protest movements swept through the world—from the Arab Spring, to Spain’s Indignados, to the Occupy Wall Street movement that spread from Zuccotti Park in downtown Manhattan across the Unite...

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  • DOWN FOR THE COUNT
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    DOWN FOR THE COUNT
    ANDREW GUMBEL
    The updated edition of Steal This Vote—a rollicking history of US voter suppression and fraud from Jacksonian democracy to Citizens United and beyond.   In Down for the Count, award-winning journalist Andrew Gumbel explores the tawdry history of elections in the United States. From Jim Crow to Tammany Hall to the Bush v. Gore Florida recount, it is a chronicle of votes bought, ...

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  • THE FIGHT FOR $15
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    THE FIGHT FOR $15
    DAVID ROLF
    “Rolf shows that raising the minimum wage to $15 is both just and necessary, lest the American dream of middle class prosperity turn into a nightmare” (David Cay Johnston, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist).   Combining history, economics, and commonsense political wisdom, The Fight for $15 makes a deeply informed case for a national fifteen-dollars-an-hour minimum wage as the ...

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  • FOODOPOLY
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    FOODOPOLY
    WENONAH HAUTER
    “A meticulously researched tour de force” on politics, big agriculture, and the need to go beyond farmers’ markets to find fixes (Publishers Weekly).   Wenonah Hauter owns an organic family farm that provides healthy vegetables to hundreds of families as part of the Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) movement. Yet, as a leading healthy-food advocate, Hauter believes that the...

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