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  • Deadly Injustice

    Trayvon Martin, Race, and the Criminal Justice System

    Edited by Devon Johnson, Amy Farrell, Patricia Y. Warren ...
    Series Book 14 - New Perspectives in Crime, Deviance, and Law
    The murder of unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin and the subsequent trial and acquittal of his assailant, George Zimmerman, sparked a passionate national debate about race and criminal justice in America that involved everyone from bloggers to mayoral candidates to President Obama himself. With increased attention to these causes, from St. Louis to Los Angeles, intense outrage at New York City’s Stop ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

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    The Myth and Reality of Hitler's Secret Police

    by Frank McDonough ...
    A new, comprehensive exploration of the Gestapo from a renowned historian of the Third Reich.Drawing on a detailed examination of previously unpublished Gestapo case files this book relates the fascinating, vivid and disturbing accounts of a cross-section of ordinary and extraordinary people who opposed the Nazi regime. It also tells the equally disturbing stories of the involvement of the German ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Homebody/Kabul

    Final Revised Version

    by Tony Kushner ...
    Mr. Kushner’s glorious specialty is in giving theatrical life to internal points of view, in which our thoughts meld with a character’s wayward speculations or fantasies... He makes the personal and the universal, the trivial and the cosmic come simultaneously to life in a single character’s bewilderment.” Ben Brantley, New York TimesAn extraordinary play…a deeply felt, expansively ruminative ... Read more

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  • A Question of Freedom

    A Memoir of Learning, Survival, and Coming of Age in Prison

    by Dwayne Betts ...
    A unique prison narrative that testifies to the power of books to transform a young man's lifeAt the age of sixteen, R. Dwayne Betts-a good student from a lower- middle-class family-carjacked a man with a friend. He had never held a gun before, but within a matter of minutes he had committed six felonies. In Virginia, carjacking is a "certifiable" offense, meaning that Betts would be treated as an ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Trouble the Water

    by Derrick Austin ...
    Rich in religious and artistic imagery, Trouble the Water is an intriguing exploration of race, sexuality, and identity, particularly where self-hood is in constant flux. These intimate, sensual poems interweave pop culture and history—moving from the Bible through several artistic eras—to interrogate what it means to be, as Austin says, fully human as a “queer, black body” in 21st century America ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Joe Louis

    by Randy Roberts ...
    A "humbling, inspiring . . . deeply emotional" biography of the boxing legend who held the heavyweight world championship for more than eleven years ( Kirkus Reviews, starred review).Known as the Brown Bomber, Joe Louis defended his heavyweight title an astonishing twenty-five times. Through the 1930s, he got more column inches of newspaper coverage than President Roosevelt. At a time when the ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Space Between the Stars

    My Journey to an Open Heart

    by Deborah Santana ...
    Deborah Santana is best known for her marriage to music icon Carlos Santana–a thirty-year bond that endures to this day. But as a girl growing up in San Francisco in the 1960s, daughter of a white mother and a black father–the legendary blues guitarist Saunders King–her life was charged with its own drama long before she married.In this beautiful, haunting memoir, Deborah Santana shares for the ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • For Discrimination

    Race, Affirmative Action, and the Law

    by Randall Kennedy ...
    **The definitive reckoning with Affirmative Action, one of America’s most explosively contentious and divisive issues—from “one of our most important and perceptive writers on race and the law.”—The Washington Post“A clear-eyed take on America’s battle over affirmative action and diversity.... [Kennedy] goes straight at the issue with fearlessness and a certain cheekiness.” —Los Angeles Times** ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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  • Workable Sisterhood

    The Political Journey of Stigmatized Women with HIV/AIDS

    by Michele Tracy Berger ...
    Workable Sisterhood is an empirical look at sixteen HIV-positive women who have a history of drug use, conflict with the law, or a history of working in the sex trade. What makes their experience with the HIV/AIDS virus and their political participation different from their counterparts of people with HIV? Michele Tracy Berger argues that it is the influence of a phenomenon she labels ... Read more

    $29.59 USD

  • Projections of Passing

    Postwar Anxieties and Hollywood Films, 1947-1960

    by N. Megan Kelley ...
    A key concern in postwar America was “who's passing for whom?” Analyzing representations of passing in Hollywood films reveals changing cultural ideas about authenticity and identity in a country reeling from a hot war and moving towards a cold one. After World War II, passing became an important theme in Hollywood movies, one that lasted throughout the long 1950s, as it became a metaphor to ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • A Joosr Guide to... Unfinished Business by Anne-Marie Slaughter: Women, Men, Work, Family

    by Joosr ...
    In today's fast-paced world, it's tough to find the time to read. But with Joosr guides, you can get the key insights from bestselling non-fiction titles in less than 20 minutes. Whether you want to gain knowledge on the go or find the books you'll love, Joosr's brief and accessible eBook summaries fit into your life. Find out more at joosr.com.Most of us will need to juggle a career with caring ... Read more

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  • Thy Shepherd Thy Wolf

    by Andy Chang ...
    Two lives senselessly struck down without provocation inside a popular Seattle park shock the city. Police find only a single clue to identify the assailant. Following this tragedy a fateful series of escalating violent incidents begin plaguing the metropolis, driven on by a man of twisted faith. This novel examines the impact of religion on modern day society, paralleling current issues affecting ... Read more

    $2.99 USD