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Rediscovering Palestine: Merchants and Peasants in Jabal Nablus, 1700-1900 / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Drawing on previously unused primary sources, this book paints an intimate and vivid portrait of Palestinian society on the eve of modernity. Thr...
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Caribbean Regional Integration: A Critical Development Approach
HardcoverOriginal price $170.00 - Original price $170.00Original price $170.00$204.99$204.99 - $204.99Current price $204.99| /This book provides an in-depth analysis of the role of regional integration in the contemporary Caribbean, challenging the value of the neoliberal ...
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India Is Broken: A People Betrayed, Independence to Today
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /A provocative new account of how India moved relentlessly from its hope-filled founding in 1947 to the dramatic economic and democratic breakdowns ...
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Vietnam: Asia's Rising Star
PaperbackOriginal price $39.00 - Original price $39.00Original price $39.00$53.99$53.99 - $53.99Current price $53.99| /Is Vietnam the world's next Tiger Economy? Can it grow like Taiwan and South Korea did when they were Tiger Economies in the 1980s and '90s? Brook ...
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Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
PaperbackOriginal price $22.00Original price $22.00 - Original price $22.00Original price $22.00Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Tracing five centuries of exploitation in Latin America, a classic in the field, now in its twenty fifth year Since its U.S. debut a quarter-centur...
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China's Next ACT: How Sustainability and Technology Are Reshaping China's Rise and the World's Future
HardcoverOriginal price $32.99 - Original price $32.99Original price $32.99$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /From solar panels to synthetic biology, an accessible-yet-authoritative overview of how climate change, the global Covid-19 pandemic, and emerging ...
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The Genius of Israel: The Surprising Resilience of a Divided Nation in a Turbulent World
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /How has a small nation of 9 million people, forced to fight for its existence and security since its founding and riven by ethnic, religious, and e...
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How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95Original price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /The classic work of political, economic, and historical analysis, powerfully introduced by Angela DavisIn his short life, the Guyanese intellectu...
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The Last Hunger Season: A Year in an African Farm Community on the Brink of Change
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /At 4:00 am, Leonida Wanyama lit a lantern in her house made of sticks and mud. She was up long before the sun to begin her farm work, as usual. B...
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Enterprising Southerners: Black Economic Success in North Carolina 1865-1915
HardcoverOriginal price $43.50 - Original price $43.50Original price $43.50$59.99$59.99 - $59.99Current price $59.99| /Surprisingly, there existed a small population of southern blacks who experienced economic gains in the fifty years following the Civil War. This b...
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A New Working Class: The Legacies of Public-Sector Employment in the Civil Rights Movement
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00$53.99$53.99 - $53.99Current price $53.99| /For decades, civil rights activists fought against employment discrimination and for a greater role for African Americans in municipal decision-mak...
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Our Black Year: One Family's Quest to Buy Black in America's Racially Divided Economy
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Maggie and John Anderson were successful African American professionals raising two daughters in a tony suburb of Chicago. But they felt uneasy o...
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