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John Gaventa, Gabe Schwartzman
Power and Just Transitions

Struggles over power and justice in the Clear Fork ValleyPublished in 1982, John Gaventa's award-winning Power and Powerlessnessexamined the dominance of the absentee coal industry in Central Appalachia. …

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Peter Collier
Roosevelts

In the first joint portrait of the Oyster Bay and Hyde Park Roosevelts, Collier and Horowitz explore in compelling, often startling detail the familial rivalries that influenced the private and public liv…

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Sanford M Jacoby
Labor in the Age of Finance

From award-winning economic historian Sanford M. Jacoby, a fascinating and important study of the labor movement and shareholder capitalismSince the 1970s, American unions have shrunk dramatically, as has…

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Earl Swift
Hell Put to Shame

A Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award Finalist (Best Fact Crime) * A Virginia Literary Awards Finalist"A haunted, historical legal thriller." --- Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionFrom the acclaime…

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Nicole Gelinas
Movement

WINNER, 2025 GOTHAM BOOK PRIZEInsideHook: The 10 Books You Should Be Reading This NovemberA gripping account of how the automobile has failed NYC and how mass transit and a revitalized streetscape are vit…

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Bob Wyss
Black Gold

"Black Gold provides an on-the-ground view of the extraordinary human toll of our country's determination to mine and burn coal as our primary source of energy and the avarice and greed of coal baron…

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Ernesto Sagás
Latino Colorado

Mexican Americans and other Latinos make up more than 22 percent of Colorado's population, play a vital role in its major economic sectors, and are becoming a political force to be reckoned with. Yet most…

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Martha Biondi
We Are Internationalists

"Through Chicagoan Prexy Nesbitt's life of organizing at the grassroots and crisscrossing the globe, we learn about long-forgotten efforts spanning decades to support the many liberation and peace st…

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Michael W Bowers, David F Damore
The Sagebrush State, 7th Edition

"The Sagebrush State serves as a highly readable and accessible text for the study of Nevada's political history and constitution. The seventh edition is updated through 2023 and includes the results…

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Philip E Orbanes
Monopoly X

"The incredible true story of how Monopoly games were used to smuggle escape aids to Allied servicemen in German P.O.W. camps--and more"--Provided by publisher.

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Annie Lowrey
The Time Tax

A powerful investigation into how and why the government wastes our time with administrative burdens, how these burdens discriminate and drive inequality, and what we can do to protect our time---and make…

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Peter Simons
Global Heartland

"Complicating and expanding ideas of the farm industry's role in American history, Global Heartland shows how Midwestern farmers were at the center of the making of the American Century. Peter Simons…

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Frye Gaillard, Cynthia Tucker
The Southernization of America

Pulitzer Prize winner Cynthia Tucker and award-winning author Frye Gaillard reflect in a powerful series of essays on the role of the South in America's long descent into its present political predicament…

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Deborah N Archer
Dividing Lines

Our nation's transportation system is crumbling: highways are collapsing, roads are pockmarked, and commuter trains are unreliable. But as acclaimed scholar and ACLU president Deborah Archer warns in Divi…

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Anna Harwell Celenza
On the Record

In On the Record: Music That Changed America , Anna Harwell Celenza uncovers the sometimes-surprising influence of music on American politics and culture. From "The Star-Spangled Banner" and Bil…

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Deborah N Archer
Dividing Lines

Our nation's transportation system is crumbling: highways are collapsing, roads are pockmarked, and commuter trains are unreliable. But as acclaimed scholar and ACLU president Deborah Archer warns in Divi…

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Franklin Foer
How Soccer Explains the World

"Step aside Tom Friedman, Sam Huntington, and Amy Chua. Franklin Foer's dark and witty tale of the soccer world reveals the meaning of globalization in all its joys and horrors."---Robert KaganJ…

lieferbar ab 7.4.2026.

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Thad Williamson, Julian M Hayter, Amy L Howard
The Making of Twenty-First-Century Richmond

"Richmond, Virginia, took center stage globally in the summer of 2020 as an epicenter of antiracist protests in the wake of the police murder of George Floyd. In a period of just a few weeks, overwhe…

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Michael Rossi
Capturing Kahanamoku

"A haunting, quietly devastating excavation of a story we should all know but don't: how a surfing legend became the target of eugenic obsession... Gorgeously written and brilliantly researched, this…

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Tom Hanchett
Affordable Housing in Charlotte

Shows in detail the housing crisis in North Carolina's (USA) most populous city and beyond.

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