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  • Keeping Heart

    A Memoir of Family Struggle, Race, and Medicine

    by Otis Trotter ...
    Series series Series in Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in Appalachia
    “After saying our good-byes to friends and neighbors, we all got in the cars and headed up the hill and down the road toward a future in Ohio that we hoped would be brighter,” Otis Trotter writes in his affecting memoir, Keeping Heart: A Memoir of Family Struggle, Race, and Medicine.Organized around the life histories, medical struggles, and recollections of Trotter and his thirteen siblings, the ... Read more

    $29.69 CAD

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    Sexual Orientation and Constitutional Law

    by Martha C. Nussbaum ...
    Series series Inalienable Rights
    A distinguished professor of law and philosophy at the University of Chicago, a prolific writer and award-winning thinker, Martha Nussbaum stands as one of our foremost authorities on law, justice, freedom, morality, and emotion. In From Disgust to Humanity, Nussbaum aims her considerable intellectual firepower at the bulwark of opposition to gay equality: the politics of disgust. Nussbaum argues ... Read more

    $22.39 CAD

  • Jackson, 1964

    And Other Dispatches from Fifty Years of Reporting on Race in America

    by Calvin Trillin ...
    From bestselling author and beloved New Yorker writer Calvin Trillin, a deeply resonant, career-spanning collection of articles on race and racism, from the 1960s to the presentIn the early sixties, Calvin Trillin got his start as a journalist covering the Civil Rights Movement in the South. Over the next five decades of reporting, he often returned to scenes of racial tension. Now, for the first ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Remembering America

    A Voice from the Sixties

    by Richard N. Goodwin ...
    From the speechwriter and top adviser to presidents Kennedy and Johnson: A behind-the-scenes history of the most momentous decade in American politics.Richard N. Goodwin entered public service in 1958 as a law clerk for Supreme Court Associate Justice Felix Frankfurter. He left politics ten years later in the aftermath of Senator Robert F. Kennedy's assassination. Over the course of one ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Becoming Ms. Burton

    From Prison to Recovery to Leading the Fight for Incarcerated Women

    by Susan Burton, Cari Lynn ...
    Winner of the 2018 National Council on Crime & Delinquency’s Media for a Just Society Awards**Winner of the 2017 Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice“Valuable . . . [like Michelle] Alexander's The New Jim Crow.”—Los Angeles Review of Books“Susan Burton is a national treasure . . . her life story is testimony to the human capacity for resilience and recovery . . . [Becoming ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Detroit 67

    The Year That Changed Soul

    by Stuart Cosgrove ...
    Series Book 1 - The Soul Trilogy
    First in the award-winning soul music trilogy—featuring Motown artists Diana Ross & the Supremes, Smokey Robinson, Marvin Gaye, and others.Detroit 67 is "a dramatic account of twelve remarkable months in the Motor City" during the year that changed everything ( Sunday Mail). It takes you on a turbulent journey through the drama and chaos that ripped through the city in 1967 and tore it apart in ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Will to Be Free

    by Booker T. Washington ...
    Collected here in this omnibus edition are three influential autobiographies of prominent men who rose up from slavery to greatness. Essential reading for anyone interested in African American Heritage. Included are Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington, Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup, and Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass. Up from ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • The Right to Heresy: Castellio against Calvin

    by Stefan Zweig ...
    Translated by Eden Paul, Cedar Paul ...
    Series series Pushkin Press Classics
    **Telling a gripping story of resistance to oppression, Zweig frames 16th-century theologian Sebastian Castellio's feud with John Calvin as a timeless warning to readers about the dangers of dictatorial power.“The first modern man who fought the good fight for humanity's right to think its own thoughts and to say them.” —New York Times**Though all but forgotten today, Sebastian Castellio’s ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD

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  • Spoken Soul

    The Story of Black English

    by John Russell Rickford, Russell John Rickford ...
    In Praise of Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English"Spoken Soul brilliantly fills a huge gap. . . . a delightfully readable introduction to the elegant interweave between the language and its culture."–Ralph W. Fasold, Georgetown university"A lively, well-documented history of Black English . . . that will enlighten and inform not only educators, for whom it should be required reading, but all ... Read more

    $16.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Five Miles Away, A World Apart

    One City, Two Schools, and the Story of Educational Opportunity in Modern America

    by James E. Ryan ...
    How is it that, half a century after Brown v. Board of Education, educational opportunities remain so unequal for black and white students, not to mention poor and wealthy ones? In his important new book, Five Miles Away, A World Apart, James E. Ryan answers this question by tracing the fortunes of two schools in Richmond, Virginia--one in the city and the other in the suburbs. Ryan shows how ... Read more

    $34.39 CAD

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  • Why Was There A Civil War? US History 5th Grade | Children's American History

    by Baby Professor ...
    Where was there a civil war? What were the events that led to bloodshed? In this 5th grader American history, we're going to visit all those facts hoping that we won’t commit the same mistakes as our ancestors. We're also going to look at the effects of the war on the American people. Are you ready to expand your knowledge on history? ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • Reform Without Justice

    Latino Migrant Politics and the Homeland Security State

    by Alfonso Gonzales ...
    Placed within the context of the past decade's war on terror and emergent Latino migrant movement, Reform without Justice addresses the issue of state violence against migrants in the United States. It questions what forces are driving draconian migration control policies and why it is that, despite its success in mobilizing millions, the Latino migrant movement and its allies have not been able ... Read more

    $42.39 CAD