Category - Social Science
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Alpha: Abidjan to Paris
HardcoverOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Doctors Without Borders PrizePEN Promotes AwardGLLI (Global Literature in Libraries Initiative) Translated YA Book Prize ShortlistCILIP Kate Gree...
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Are Prisons Obsolete?
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case for the latest abolition movement in American li...
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Readings in Syrian Prison Literature: The Poetics of Human Rights
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /The simple act of inscription, both minute and epic, can be a powerful tool to bear witness and give voice to those who are oppressed, silenced, an...
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My Boy Will Die of Sorrow: A Memoir of Immigration From the Front Lines
HardcoverOriginal price $29.00Original price $29.00 - Original price $29.00Original price $29.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /This deeply personal perspective from a human rights lawyer—whose work on the front lines of the fight against family separations in South Texas ...
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Indigenous Language Politics in the Schoolroom: Cultural Survival in Mexico and the United States
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /Public school classrooms around the world have the power to shape and transform youth culture and identity. In this book, Mneesha Gellman examines ...
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The Outcast Majority: War, Development, and Youth in Africa
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /The Outcast Majority invites policymakers, practitioners, academics, students, and others to think about three commanding contemporary issues—war...
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Rethinking the South African Crisis: Nationalism, Populism, Hegemony
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /Since the end of apartheid, South Africa has become an extreme yet unexceptional embodiment of forces at play in many other regions of the world:...
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The Pink Line: Journeys Across the World's Queer Frontiers
PaperbackOriginal price $21.00Original price $21.00 - Original price $21.00Original price $21.00Current price $19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /One of TIME's 100 Must-Read Books of 2020. Longlisted for the 2021 Rathbones Folio Prize. "[Mark] Gevisser is clear-eyed and wise enough to have ...
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Brainwashed: Challenging the Myth of Black Inferiority
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /“Black people are not dark-skinned white people,” says advertising visionary Tom Burrell. In fact, they are a lot more.They are survivors of the ...
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Hope Deferred: Narratives of Zimbabwean Lives
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00$58.99$58.99 - $58.99Current price $58.99| /The fifth volume in the Voice of Witness series presents the narratives of Zimbabweans whose lives have been affected by the country's political, e...
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Live from Death Row
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /"A rare and courageous voice speaking from a place we fear to know: Mumia Abu-Jamal must be heard." --Alice Walker"Resonates with the moral force o...
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Facing the Khmer Rouge: A Cambodian Journey
PaperbackOriginal price $41.95 - Original price $41.95Original price $41.95$54.99$54.99 - $54.99Current price $54.99| /As a child growing up in Cambodia, Ronnie Yimsut played among the ruins of the Angkor Wat temples, surrounded by a close-knit community. As the Khm...
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The Architect: How to transform yourself and your world
PaperbackOriginal price $11.45 - Original price $11.45Original price $11.45$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /A radical social treatise about African American gangs in the 21st century. This book is more than just a blueprint for self-transformation and the...
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Slaves among Us: The Hidden World of Human Trafficking
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Now with a foreword by trafficking survivor Evelyn Chumbow, of The Human Trafficking Legal Center. The horrific world of modern slavery is expose...
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On the Doorstep of Europe: Asylum and Citizenship in Greece
PaperbackOriginal price $26.50 - Original price $26.50Original price $26.50$27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Greece has shouldered a heavy burden in the global economic crisis, struggling with political and financial insecurity. Greece has also the most ...
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The Forever Prisoner: The Full and Searing Account of the CIA's Most Controversial Covert Program
PaperbackOriginal price $22.00Original price $22.00 - Original price $22.00Original price $22.00Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Some argued it would save the U.S. after 9/11. Instead, the CIA’s enhanced interrogation program came to be defined as American torture. The Fore...
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Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /NATIONAL BESTSELLER • With stark poignancy and political dispassion Tightrope addresses the crisis in working-class America while focusing on sol...
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The World Refugees Made: Decolonization and the Foundation of Postwar Italy
PaperbackOriginal price $31.95 - Original price $31.95Original price $31.95$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /In The World Refugees Made, Pamela Ballinger explores Italy's remaking in light of the loss of a wide range of territorial possessions—colonies, ...
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Last to Eat, Last to Learn: My Life in Afghanistan Fighting to Educate Women
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /From young Afghani activist and Amnesty International Global Youth Ambassador Pashtana Durrani, a deeply inspiring memoir about the power of learni...
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Enslaved: Trapped and Trafficked in Digital Black Holes: Human Trafficking Trajectories to Libya
PaperbackOriginal price $66.00 - Original price $66.00Original price $66.00$69.99$69.99 - $69.99Current price $69.99| /Eritrean refugees are being trafficked and enslaved in Libya, where they are tortured to force relatives to pay a ransom for their release. Labelle...
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Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
HardcoverOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /The revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times Best Business Book of the Year Award. An unfli...
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Hope Deferred: Narratives of Zimbabwean Lives
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /This book presents the narratives of Zimbabweans whose lives have been affected by the country's political, economic, and human rights crises. This...
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Infrastructures of Impunity: New Order Violence in Indonesia
HardcoverOriginal price $125.00 - Original price $125.00Original price $125.00$152.99$152.99 - $152.99Current price $152.99| /In Infrastructures of Impunity Elizabeth F. Drexler argues that the creation and persistence of impunity for the perpetrators of the Cold War Indon...
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Infrastructures of Impunity: New Order Violence in Indonesia
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /In Infrastructures of Impunity Elizabeth F. Drexler argues that the creation and persistence of impunity for the perpetrators of the Cold War Indon...
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