Category - Social Science
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Feral City: On Finding Liberation in Lockdown New York
HardcoverOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /A Vulture Best Memoir of 2022 A Kirkus Best Nonfiction Book of 2022 A Bookforum Favorite Book of 2022 What happens when an entire social class ab...
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PS Burn This Letter Please
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /Their greatest act of resistance was simply existing. Drags, fags and trans-women were attracted to the Big Apple because they were able to find w...
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An Amerikan Family: The Shakurs and the Nation They Created
HardcoverOriginal price $32.50Original price $32.50 - Original price $32.50Original price $32.50Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /"Magnificent.... A uniquely intimate history of Black liberation." - Los Angeles TimesThe long overdue story of the Shakurs, one of the most promin...
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Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00Original price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A powerful study of how to bear witness in a moment when America is being called to do the same.”—Time James Baldwin...
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Concepcion: Conquest, Colonialism, and an Immigrant Family's Fate
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /"Absolutely extraordinary...A landmark in the contemporary literature of the diaspora." --Jia Tolentino, author of Trick Mirror "If Concepcion were...
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Transgender History, second edition: The Roots of Today's Revolution
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Covering American transgender history from the mid-twentieth century to today, Transgender History takes a chronological approach to the subject ...
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Black Ball: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Spencer Haywood, and the Generation that Saved the Soul of the NBA
HardcoverOriginal price $29.00Original price $29.00 - Original price $29.00Original price $29.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A vital narrative history of 1970s pro basketball, and the Black players who shaped the NBA Against a backdrop of ongoing resistance to racial de...
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Chinua Achebe
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Chinua Achebe has long been regarded as Africa's foremost writer. In this major new study, Jago Morrison offers a comprehensive reassessment of his...
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The Fourth Turning Is Here: What the Seasons of History Tell Us about How and When This Crisis Will End
HardcoverOriginal price $32.50Original price $32.50 - Original price $32.50Original price $32.50Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /The visionary behind the bestselling phenomenon The Fourth Turning looks once again to America’s past to predict our future in this startling and...
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Tainted Tap: Flint's Journey from Crisis to Recovery
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /After a cascade of failures left residents of Flint, Michigan, without a reliable and affordable supply of safe drinking water, citizens spent year...
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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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1 Dead in Attic: After Katrina
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /With a new foreword by the author—Chris Rose’s New York Times bestselling collection: “A gripping book about life’s challenges in post-Katrina Ne...
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Just Action: How to Challenge Segregation Enacted Under the Color of Law
HardcoverOriginal price $25.00Original price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /In his best-selling book The Color of Law, Richard Rothstein demolished the de facto segregation myth that black and white Americans live separatel...
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Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own
HardcoverOriginal price $27.00Original price $27.00 - Original price $27.00Original price $27.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A powerful study of how to bear witness in a moment when America is being called to do the same.”—Time James Baldwin...
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White Fear: How the Browning of America Is Making White Folks Lose Their Minds
HardcoverOriginal price $23.95Original price $23.95 - Original price $23.95Original price $23.95Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /White Fear has shaped our democracy and society from the beginning—and today, it’s more intense and visible than ever. To neutralize it, we must ...
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The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time
HardcoverOriginal price $32.00Original price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /A Financial Times Best Book of the Year "The most comprehensive and reasonable story of this shift that has yet been attempted . . . Mounk has told...
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Migrant Aesthetics: Contemporary Fiction, Global Migration, and the Limits of Empathy
HardcoverOriginal price $140.00 - Original price $140.00Original price $140.00$170.99$170.99 - $170.99Current price $170.99| /By most accounts, immigrant literature deals primarily with how immigrants struggle to adapt to their adopted countries. Its readers have come to e...
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Migrant Aesthetics: Contemporary Fiction, Global Migration, and the Limits of Empathy
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /By most accounts, immigrant literature deals primarily with how immigrants struggle to adapt to their adopted countries. Its readers have come to e...
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Chinese Revolution in Practice: From Movement to the State
HardcoverOriginal price $170.00 - Original price $170.00Original price $170.00$204.99$204.99 - $204.99Current price $204.99| /This book employs multiple case studies to explore how the Chinese communist revolution began as an ideology-oriented intellectual movement aimed a...
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Kids on the Street: Queer Kinship and Religion in San Francisco's Tenderloin
PaperbackOriginal price $28.95 - Original price $28.95Original price $28.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /In Kids on the Street Joseph Plaster explores the informal support networks that enabled abandoned and runaway queer youth to survive in tenderloin...
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How Migration Really Works: The Facts about the Most Divisive Issue in Politics
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /An authoritative guide to global migration that corrects decades of misunderstanding and misguided policy, "defying orthodoxy on all sides of the d...
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The Long War on Drugs
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /Since the early twentieth century, the United States has led a global prohibition effort against certain drugs in which production restriction and ...
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A History of Fake Things on the Internet
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /A Next Big Idea Club "Must Read" for December 2023 As all aspects of our social and informational lives increasingly migrate online, the line betwe...
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Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture
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 New Yorker staff writer and author of The Longing for Less Kyle Chayka comes a timely history and investigation of a world ruled by algorith...
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