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  • Breaking Through Gridlock

    The Power of Conversation in a Polarized World

    by Jason J. Jay, Gabriel Grant ...
    "A field manual for change agents on how to build bridges across differences and move from talk to action." —Adam Grant, #1 New York Times-bestselling authorThink about the last time you tried to talk with someone who didn't already agree with you about issues that matter most. How well did it go?These conversations are vital, but too often get stuck. They become contentious or we avoid them ... Read more

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  • The Leaderless Revolution

    How Ordinary People Will Take Power and Change Politics in the 21st Century

    by Carne Ross ...
    The Leaderless Revolution explains why our government institutions are inadequate to the task of solving major problems and offers a set of steps we can take to create lasting and workable solutions ourselves. In taking these steps, we can not only reclaim the control we have lost, but also a sense of meaning and community so elusive in the current circumstance. In a day and age when things feel ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Things That Can and Cannot Be Said

    Essays and Conversations

    by Arundhati Roy, John Cusack ...
    An activist and an actor reflect on Edward Snowden and the surveillance state in this collection that "reads like a whistleblower's travel diary" ( Disorient).In late 2014, Arundhati Roy, John Cusack, and Daniel Ellsberg traveled to Moscow to meet with NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. The result was a series of essays and dialogues in which Roy and Cusack reflect on their conversations with ... Read more

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  • You're More Powerful Than You Think

    A Citizen's Guide to Making Change Happen

    by Eric Liu ...
    **A handbook for how political power really works, and what it takes to make change happen“[Liu] addresses a central question of this age: what, exactly, citizens who are unhappy with national politics can do, other than write a check or await the next chance to vote.” —The Atlantic**In this age of epic political turbulence, citizens everywhere are organizing to claim their power. Do you ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Group Politics and Social Movements in Canada, Second Edition

    Edited by Miriam Smith ...
    Group Politics and Social Movements in Canada, Second Edition updates and expands its exploration of a wide range of organized group and social movement activity in Canadian politics. Particularly distinctive is the inclusion of Quebec nationalism and Aboriginal politics. Many other areas of collective activity are also included: the Occupy movement and anti-poverty organizing, ethnocultural ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • The Citizen Solution

    How You Can Make A Difference

    by Harry C. Boyte ...
    Nationally known community organizer and activist Harry C. Boyte incites readers to join today's "citizen movement," offering practical tools for how we can change the face of America by focusing on issues close to home.Targeting useful techniques for individuals to raise public consciousness and effectively motivate community-based groups, Boyte grounds his arguments in the country's tradition of ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Gender and Politics

    Edited by Georgina Waylen, Karen Celis, Johanna Kantola, S. Laurel Weldon ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    As a field of scholarship, gender and politics has exploded over the last fifty years and is now global, institutionalized, and ever expanding. The Oxford Handbook of Gender and Politics brings to political science an accessible and comprehensive overview of the key contributions of gender scholars to the study of politics and shows how these contributions produce a richer understanding of ... Read more

    $51.29 USD

  • Stand Up!

    The Story of Minnesota’s Protest Tradition

    by Rhoda Gilman ...
    When the senatorial election of 2008 between Democrat Al Franken and Republican Norm Coleman stretched on for a contentious six months, people throughout the country wondered about Minnesota's offbeat politics. But Minnesota has been and is now a seedbed for cultural and political movements that have changed the country, and its history weaves a pattern of wide opposition between left and right.In ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Democracy in the Making

    How Activist Groups Form

    by Kathleen M. Blee ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Culture and Politics
    Winner of the 2012 ARNOVA Outstanding Book in Nonprofit and Voluntary Action Research Award 2013 Charles Tilly Award for Best Book from the American Sociological Association Section on Collective Behavior and Social Movements "Democracy in the Making offers a marvelous synthesis of sociological acumen and hope. Kathleen Blee finds that while social activists often narrow their visions of doable ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Everyday Politics

    Reconnecting Citizens and Public Life

    by Harry C. Boyte ...
    Increasingly a spectator sport, electoral politics have become bitterly polarized by professional consultants and lobbyists and have been boiled down to the distributive mantra of "who gets what." In Everyday Politics, Harry Boyte transcends partisan politics to offer an alternative. He demonstrates how community-rooted activities reconnect citizens to engaged, responsible public life, and not ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Cold Anger

    A Story of Faith and Power Politics

    by Mary Beth Rogers ...
    "Cold Anger is an important book about the empowerment of working-class communities through church-based social activism. Such activism is certainly not new, but the conscious merger of community organizing tactics with religious beliefs may be. The organizing approach comes from Aul Alinsky and his Industrial Areas Foundations (IAF). . . . The book is structured around the political life of ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • Networked Publics and Digital Contention

    The Politics of Everyday Life in Tunisia

    by Mohamed Zayani ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Digital Politics
    How is the adoption of digital media in the Arab world affecting the relationship between the state and its subjects? What new forms of online engagement and strategies of resistance have emerged from the aspirations of digitally empowered citizens in the Middle East and North Africa? Networked Publics and Digital Contention narrates the story of the co-evolution of technology and society in ... Read more

    $27.59 USD