Review imprint: 1779 books
Cook County ICU
30 Years of Unforgettable Patients and Odd Cases
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
An inside look at one of the nation’s most famous public hospitals as seen through the eyes of its longtime director of intensive care
Filled with stories of strange medical cases and unforgettable patients culled from a 30-year career in medicine, Cook County ICU offers readers a peek into the...
Advise & Dissent
Memoirs of South Dakota and the U.S. Senate
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1989
The life story of the founder of ADC, from his parents' farm in South Dakota to the halls of the Senate, where he refused to compromise his principles.
by Steve Early
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Save Our Unions: Dispatches From A Movement in Distress brings together recent essays and reporting by labor journalist Steve Early. The author illuminates the challenges facing U.S. workers, whether they’re trying to democratize their union, win a strike, defend past contract gains, or bargain with...
The War on Civil Liberties
How Bush and Ashcroft Have Dismantled the Bill of Rights
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Examining the legal foundations of the war on terror, this book investigates the loss of the civil liberties of American citizens and legal immigrants. In a detailed look at bills such as the 1996 Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act, the USA Patriot Act, and the Homeland Security Act, and...
The Civil Rights Movement for Kids
A History with 21 Activities
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2000
Surprisingly, kids were some of the key instigators in the Civil Rights Movement, like Barbara Johns, who held a rally in her elementary school gym that eventually led to the Brown vs. Board of Education Supreme Court school desegregation decision, and six-year-old Ruby Bridges, who was the first...
Sharon
Israel's Warrior-Politician
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2005
Ariel Sharon, Israel's former Prime Minister, was perhaps one of the most controversial public figures in the Mideast.
He was born in 1928 in a moshav—an agricultural community in which, unlike a kibbutz, residents own their own property—and was raised by parents who were not only ardent Zionists...
The Politics of Cocaine
How U.S. Foreign Policy Has Created a Thriving Drug Industry in Central and South America
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
Drawing on declassified documents and painstaking research, this exploration of the economic drug trade of Central and South America fills in historical gaps and provides a new and controversial analysis of a complex and seemingly unsolvable problem. Viewing the problem through the lens of United...
Labor and Monopoly Capital
The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1998
This widely acclaimed book, first published in 1974, was a classic from its first day in print. Written in a direct, inviting way by Harry Braverman, whose years as an industrial worker gave him rich personal insight into work, Labor and Monopoly Capital overturned the reigning ideologies of academic...
Devil's Sanctuary
An Eyewitness History of Mississippi Hate Crimes
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Recalling the state’s shameful racist history of lynching, arson, denial of rights, false imprisonment, and other heinous crimes, this riveting narrative explores how Mississippi became a safe haven for the most violent and virulent racists, who were immune to prosecution for their crimes. This...
Stokely Speaks
From Black Power to Pan-Africanism
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2007
In the speeches and articles collected in this book, the black activist, organizer, and freedom fighter Stokely Carmichael traces the dramatic changes in his own consciousness and that of black Americans that took place during the evolving movements of Civil Rights, Black Power, and Pan-Africanism....
by Henry A. Giroux
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
In the United States today, the term "terrorism" conjures up images of dangerous, outside threats: religious extremists and suicide bombers in particular. Harder to see but all the more pervasive is the terrorism perpetuated by the United States itself, whether through military force overseas...
Sexism in America
Alive, Well, and Ruining Our Future
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Debunking the many myths about how far women have come and the pervasive belief that American society is postfeminist, this account traces women's status and the assault on their rights from the 1950s-when Newsweek declared, "for the American girl, books and babies don't mix"-to the present,...
Benjamin Franklin, American Genius
His Life and Ideas with 21 Activities
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Capturing the essence of this exceptional individual through his original writings and hands-on activities from his era, this resource tells the rich story of one of America’s most celebrated Founding Fathers. Beginning with his time as a young printer, this engaging narrative details how Benjamin...
by James D. Cockcroft
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Written to commemorate the one hundredth anniversary of the first predominantly anti-capitalist revolution in the world, Mexico’s Revolution Then and Now is the perfect introductory text and one that will also sharpen the understanding of seasoned observers. Cockcroft provides readers with the historical...