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There are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America
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Zeitoun
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To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism
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The Night Ocean
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Baluta
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The Magical Revival
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Get Opinionated: A Progressive's Guide to Finding Your Voice
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The Common Good
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An Economics of Justice and Charity: Catholic Social Teaching, Its Development and Contemporary Relevance
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The Prophet and the Proletariat: Islamic Fundamentalism, Class and Revolution
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The Reckoning: Our Nation's Trauma and Finding a Way to Heal
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Stone Butch Blues
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A Conquista do Pão
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Lion in the White House: A Life of Theodore Roosevelt
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Reason: Why Liberals Will Win the Battle for America
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The Origins of Virtue: Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperation
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Priceless: On Knowing The Price Of Everything And The Value Of Nothing
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Rubyfruit Jungle
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Khairlanji: A Strange and Bitter Crop
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Wall Street's Think Tank: The Council on Foreign Relations and the Empire of Neoliberal Geopolitics, 1976-2014
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Aleister Crowley & the Hidden God
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What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets
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Rigging the Game: How Inequality Is Reproduced in Everyday Life
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The Revolutionary Paper
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The Laugh of the Medusa
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Imperialism and the revolution
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Buses Are a Comin'
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Hitler's American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law
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O Segundo Sexo
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The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (Theodore Roosevelt, #1)
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Articles on Books about George W. Bush, Including: The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, the Betrayal of America, Supreme Injustice, the Accidental President, Stupid White Men ...and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation!, Dude
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The Future of Liberalism
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Bleeding Kansas
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North and South
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Untouchable God
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Ecology and Socialism: Solutions to Capitalist Ecological Crisis
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The Myth of Persecution: How Early Christians Invented a Story of Martyrdom
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Wake, Rise, Resist: The Progressive Teen's Guide to Fighting Tyrants and A*holes
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Joanna Spathis (Goodreads Author)
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Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
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The Fire Last Time: 1968 and After
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How the Irish Became White
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O Segundo Sexo II : A Experiência Vivida
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The Education of Kendrick Perkins: A Memoir
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It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided with the Politics of Extremism
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Shadows on the Gulf: A Journey through Our Last Great Wetland
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A Small Place
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Our Bodies, Ourselves
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Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
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Taking On the System: Rules for Radical Change in a Digital Era
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The Accursed Share: An Essay on General Economy, Volume I: Consumption
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Writing and Difference
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History Teaches Us to Resist: How Progressive Movements Have Succeeded in Challenging Times
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We Gon' Be Alright: Notes on Race and Resegregation
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A People's History of the World
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Babies for Sale?: Transnational Surrogacy, Human Rights and the Politics of Reproduction
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From Dictatorship To Democracy: A Conceptual Framework for Liberation
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Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
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Away With All Gods!: Unchaining the Mind and Radically Changing the World
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Siblings Without Rivalry: How to Help Your Children Live Together So You Can Live Too
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Who Rules America Now? A View for the 80's
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Visions of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927–1939
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The Triumph of Evil
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The Progressive Gene: How Genetics Influence the Morality of the Left
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The Rebellion of the Hanged
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St. Pauli
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Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy
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Death by Medicine
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Treasures of the Earth: Need, Greed, and a Sustainable Future
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Coyote Waits (Leaphorn & Chee, #10)
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Literature and Evil
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The Doll's Alphabet
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Black Coffee in a Coconut Shell: Caste as Lived Experience
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We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change
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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
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Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
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The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values
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How to Watch TV News
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Organic Manifesto: How Organic Farming Can Heal Our Planet, Feed the World, and Keep Us Safe
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Spiritual Warfare: The Politics of the Christian Right
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Orange Is the New Black
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Specters of Marx
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Friendly Fascism: The New Face of Power in America
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Talkin' 'Bout a Revolution: Music and Social Change in America
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The Grouchy Historian: An Old-Time Lefty Defends Our Constitution Against Right-Wing Hypocrites and Nutjobs
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On Literature and Art
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Birth Strike: The Hidden Fight over Women’s Work
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Afrofuturism: A Special Issue of Social Text (Volume 20)
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Diet for a Hot Planet: The Climate Crisis at the End of Your Fork and What You Can Do about It
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Not by Politics Alone: The Enduring Influence of the Christian Right
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Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places
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White Teeth
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And the Crooked Places Made Straight: The Struggle for Social Change in the 1960s
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The Age of Inequality: Corporate America's War on Working People
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The Lessons of October
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Living My Life
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The Zorg: A Tale of Greed and Murder That Inspired the Abolition of Slavery
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Right-Wing Populism in America: Too Close for Comfort
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The Golden House
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The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self
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Jan 04, 2012 11:20AM
William Leuchtenburg, Progressivism and Imperialism: The Progressive Movement and American Foreign Policy, 1898 - 1916
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