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Rhacel Salazar Parreñas
The Trafficker Next Door

The phrase "human trafficking" often conjures nightmarish images of sexual exploitation but Rhacel Salazar Parreñas reveals that the majority of trafficking victims are domestic workers-who suff…

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Annette Nierobisz, Dana Sawchuk, Dana Sawchuck, Annette Marie Nierobisz
American Idle

What happens when older workers lose their jobs in a recessionary economy filled with employers who favor hiring younger workers? From hard falls to soft landings, American Idle uses in-depth interviews t…

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Shyon Baumann, Emily Huddart Kennedy, Josee Johnston, Merin Oleschuk
Happy Meat

"North Americans love eating meat. Despite the increased awareness of the meat industry's harms -- violence against animals, health problems, and associations with environmental degradation -- the ra…

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Shyon Baumann, Emily Huddart Kennedy, Josee Johnston, Merin Oleschuk
Happy Meat

"North Americans love eating meat. Despite the increased awareness of the meat industry's harms -- violence against animals, health problems, and associations with environmental degradation -- the ra…

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Amy Kaplan
Our American Israel

How did a Jewish state come to resonate profoundly with Americans in the twentieth century? Since WWII, Israel's identity has been entangled with America's belief in its own exceptionalism. Turning a crit…

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Kristen Kreider, James O'Leary
Ungovernable Spaces

What does it mean to be governed and what does it mean to resist? Examining how communities form amidst social and political turbulence, this open access book presents four case studies that demonstrate t…

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Rita Abrahamsen, Michael C Williams
Developing Hegemony

At a time of multiple challenges to the liberal international order, development has become one of the most contentious areas of world politics. Dominant powers have reduced their assistance and overtly f…

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Julian Baggini
How the World Eats

"How we live is shaped by how we eat. You can see this in the vastly different approaches to growing, preparing and eating food around the world, such as the hunter-gatherer Hadza in Tanzania whose s…

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Michael Rosino
Democracy Is Awkward

"In uncertain times, confronting pressing problems such as racial oppression and the environmental crisis requires everyday people to come together and wield political power for the greater good. Yet…

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Rebecca Solnit
The Beginning Comes After the End

Rebecca Solnit offers a thrilling account of the sheer breadth and scale of social, political, scientific, and cultural change over the past three quarters of a century. In this sequel to her enduring be…

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Ruth Braunstein
My Tax Dollars

"When the mundane reality of paying taxes takes on moral significance. In My Tax Dollars, Ruth Braunstein maps the contested moral landscape in which Americans experience and make sense of the tax sy…

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Michelle Christian
The Global Journey of Racism

"In The Global Journey of Racism, Michelle Christian provides a unified narrative of how the world's racial hierarchies came to be. Christian's story begins before the Ku Klux Klan, Nazi Germany, and…

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Nancy Matsumoto
Reaping What She Sows

A James Beard Award winner celebrates the women heroes who are fighting against the Big Food system---and asks the question: How should we eat?When the Covid-19 pandemic ripped through global food supply …

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Chantelle Jessica Lewis, Jason Arday
We See Things They'll Never See

How neurotypical hegemony reproduces a culture of exclusion---and how to overcome this with love, hope, and solidarityAbleism is embedded in our daily lives. Social life, education, work, and, especially,…

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Michelle Christian
The Global Journey of Racism

"In The Global Journey of Racism, Michelle Christian provides a unified narrative of how the world's racial hierarchies came to be. Christian's story begins before the Ku Klux Klan, Nazi Germany, and…

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A Mechele Dickerson
The Middle-Class New Deal

"We are at a moment of reckoning as a country, and this bold and ambitious book should be at the center of the conversation on what can be done to make the American Dream more realistic for the many-…

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Stefano Mancuso,
Phytopolis

"A renowned plant expert explains how we can make urgent, positive changes to our cities that protect against and reduce global warming. The conquest of new lands has been the greatest occupation of …

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Rebecca Solnit
The Beginning Comes After the End

Rebecca Solnit offers a thrilling account of the sheer breadth and scale of social, political, scientific, and cultural change over the past three quarters of a century. In this sequel to her enduring be…

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Casey Golomski
God's Waiting Room

A ghost story rich in mystery and life lessons, God's Waiting Room takes readers on a day-long tour of a tropical nursing home to hear stories of older white people and the younger Black nurses who care f…

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Dalai Lama
Voice for the Voiceless

"In this unique book offering personal, spiritual, and historical reflections--some never shared before--His Holiness the Dalai Lama tells the full story of his struggle with China to save Tibet and …

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