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Hip Hop Matters

Politics, Pop Culture, and the Struggle for the Soul of a Movement

by S. Craig Watkins
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2005

From its humble beginnings in the Bronx to its transformation into a multibillion-dollar global industry, hip hop has stirred constant and contentious debate. Avoiding the simple caricatures that either celebrate or condemn this powerful movement, S. Craig Watkins produces one of the most thorough...

The Cure For Everything

Untangling Twisted Messages about Health, Fitness, and Happiness

by Timothy Caulfield
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012

In this era of health-science research, rarely a day goes by without a public pronouncement of some exciting health-enhancing discovery: a new diet, a new fitness routine, a new drug or alternative therapy, the miracles achieved by genetic mapping. And we are told—by the media, health-care experts,...

Breathe

A Letter to My Sons

by Imani Perry
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2019

Explores the terror, grace, and beauty of coming of age as a Black person in contemporary America and what it means to parent our children in a persistently unjust world. Emotionally raw and deeply reflective, Imani Perry issues an unflinching challenge to society to see Black children as deserving...

Women Writing Resistance

Essays on Latin America and the Caribbean

by Veronica Chambers
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017

Essays on Latinx and Caribbean identity and on globalization by renowned women writers, including Julia Alvarez, Edwidge Danticat, and Jamaica Kincaid Women Writing Resistance: Essays on Latin America and the Caribbean gathers the voices of sixteen acclaimed writer-activists for a one-of-a-kind...

Sex Workers Unite

A History of the Movement from Stonewall to SlutWalk

by Melinda Chateauvert
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014

A provocative history that reveals how sex workers have been at the vanguard of social justice movements for the past fifty years while building a movement of their own that challenges our ideas about labor, sexuality, feminism, and freedom   Fifty countries treat sex work as a legitimate job, and...

Hunting Season

Immigration and Murder in an All-American Town

by Mirta Ojito
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013

The true story of an immigrant's murder that turned a quaint village on the Long Island shore into ground zero in the war on immigration   In November of 2008, Marcelo Lucero, a thirty-seven-year-old undocumented Ecuadorean immigrant, was brutally attacked and murdered by a group of teenagers as...

Cottage for Sale, Must Be Moved

A Woman Moves a House to Make a Home

by Kate Whouley
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2011

A true account of one woman's quest to move a vacation cottage across Cape Cod to create a home, and the people, complications, and self-discoveries she encountered along the way. When Kate Whouley saw the classified ad for an abandoned vacation cottage, she began to dream: Transport the cottage...

Beyond Bogotá

Diary of a Drug War Journalist in Colombia

by Garry Leech
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2008

Independent journalist Garry Leech has spent the last eight years working in the most remote and dangerous regions of Colombia, uncovering the unofficial stories of people living in conflict zones. Beyond Bogotá is framed around the eleven hours that Leech was held captive by the FARC, Colombia's...

Dark Tide

The Great Molasses Flood of 1919

by Stephen Puleo
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2010

Around noon on January 15, 1919, a group of firefighters was playing cards in Boston's North End when they heard a tremendous crash. It was like roaring surf, one of them said later. Like a runaway two-horse team smashing through a fence, said another. A third firefighter jumped up from his chair...

The Lonely Soldier

The Private War of Women Serving in Iraq

by Helen Benedict
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009

The Lonely Soldier--the inspiration for the documentary The Invisible War--vividly tells the stories of five women who fought in Iraq between 2003 and 2006--and of the challenges they faced while fighting a war painfully alone. More American women have fought and died in Iraq than in any war...

One Righteous Man

Samuel Battle and the Shattering of the Color Line in New York

by Arthur Browne
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015

Winner of the Christopher Award and the New York City Book Award Winner of the 2016 Wheatley Book Award in Nonfiction A history of African Americans in New York City from the 1910s to 1960, told through the life of Samuel Battle, the New York Police Department’s first black officer.   When...

The Long Walk to Freedom

Runaway Slave Narratives

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Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012

In this groundbreaking compilation of first-person accounts of the runaway slave phenomenon, editors Devon Carbado and Donald Weise have recovered twelve narratives spanning eight decades—more than half of which have been long out of print. Told in the voices of the runaway slaves themselves, these...

The Broken Spears 2007 Revised Edition

The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico

by Miguel Leon-Portilla
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011

For hundreds of years, the history of the conquest of Mexico and the defeat of the Aztecs has been told in the words of the Spanish victors. Miguel León-Portilla has long been at the forefront of expanding that history to include the voices of indigenous peoples. In this new and updated edition of...

Mr. Hornaday's War

How a Peculiar Victorian Zookeeper Waged a Lonely Crusade for Wildlife That Changed the World

by Stefan Bechtel
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012

He was complex, quirky, pugnacious, and difficult. He seemed to create enemies wherever he went, even among his friends. A fireplug of a man who stood only five feet eight inches in his stocking feet, he had an outsized ambition to make his mark on the world. And he did. William Temple Hornaday (1854-1937)...
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