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The Dangerous Divide
Peril and Promise on the US-Mexico Border
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
How do we balance border security and America’s need for a vital workforce while continuing to provide access to the American dream? Since the attacks of 9/11, the United States has steadily ramped up security along the U.S.-Mexico border, transforming America’s legendary Southwest into a frontier...
by Esther Yi, Victoria Dailey, Evan Selinger
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
As any historian or casual observer of urban transformation might tell you, walls are not everlasting. The following collection examines different ways monuments and notions of monumentality in art and architecture exist in relation to this reality. From Esther Yi's chronicle of the uncertain fate of...
by Ernst Fischer, Franz Marek
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1996
A brief, clear, and faithful exposition of Marx's major premises, with particular attention to historical context.
by Craig Boreth
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1998
Ernest Hemingway’s insatiable appetite for life was evident in his writing and equaled by little else than his voracious appetite for good food and drink. The Hemingway Cookbook collects, for the first time, more than 125 recipes from Hemingway’s life and art featuring such unique dishes as Dorado...
Henry David Thoreau for Kids
His Life and Ideas, with 21 Activities
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Hands-on nature activities for the budding transcendentalist Author and naturalist Henry David Thoreau is best known for living two years along the shores of Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts. He is also known for spending a night in jail for nonpayment of taxes, which he discussed in the influential...
I Killed Scheherazade
Confessions of an Angry Arab Woman
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
For centuries the heroine of The Arabian Nights, Scheherazade, defined the Arab woman-until Joumana Haddad, an Arab woman herself, had had enough. Haddad angrily challenges prevalent notions of identity and womanhood in the Middle East in this intrepid exploration. While she finds the West’s dominant...
Nellie Bly and Investigative Journalism for Kids
Mighty Muckrakers from the Golden Age to Today, with 21 Activities
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
An interactive activity book that details the muckraking era
Nellie Bly and Investigative Journalism for Kids brings to light the evolving world of American journalism, from the late 1800s to today. Focusing on the bold, audacious investigative reporter Nellie Bly, one of the most famous women...
Divine Rebels
American Christian Activists for Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
In an effort to reclaim the fundamental principles of Christianity, moving it away from religious right-wing politics and towards the teachings of Jesus, the American Christian activists profiled in this book agitate for a society free from racism, patriarchy, bigotry, retribution, ecocide, torture,...
She Takes a Stand
16 Fearless Activists Who Have Changed the World
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
Portraits of brave women from the late 1800s through today—role models who are passionate about important issues A source of inspiration for young women with strong social convictions, She Takes a Stand highlights 16 extraordinary women who have fought for human rights, civil rights, workers' rights,...
The Economic War Against Cuba
A Historical and Legal Perspective on the U.S. Blockade
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
It is impossible to fully understand Cuba today without also understanding the economic sanctions levied against it by the United States. For over fifty years, these sanctions have been upheld by every presidential administration, and at times intensified by individual presidents and acts of Congress....
Fanshen
A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese Village
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
More than forty years after its initial publication, William Hinton's Fanshen continues to be the essential volume for those fascinated with China's revolutionary process of rural reform and social change. A pioneering work, Fanshan is a marvelous and revealing look into life in the Chinese countryside,...
Investigating Lois Lane
The Turbulent History of the Daily Planet's Ace Reporter
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
In a universe full of superheroes, Lois Lane has fought for truth and justice for over 75 years on page and screen without a cape or tights. From her creation by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster in 1938 to her forthcoming appearance in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice in 2016, from helming her own...
Hitler
The Man and the Military Leader
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1999
Percy Ernst Schramm, one of Germany's most distinguished historians, had exceptional access to Adolf Hitler because from January 1943 to the end of the war he was the Fuhrer's official war diarist. This classic volume, long out of print, contains the introductions written by Schramm to critical editions...