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  • Ethnicity and Religion

    Intersections and Comparisons

    Edited by Jennifer Todd, Joseph Ruane ...
    Series series Association for the Study of Nationalities
    Religion has regained political prominence in the twenty first century and not least for the manner in which it intersects with ethnicity. Many ethnic conflicts have a strong religious dimension, and religion appears as a powerful force for mobilisation, solidarity and violence. Religion and ethnicity can each act as a powerful base of identity, group formation and communal conflict. They can also ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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  • Our Media, Not Theirs

    The Democratic Struggle against Corporate Media

    by Robert W. McChesney, John Nichols ...
    Series series Open Media Series
    Our Media, Not Theirs! The Democratic Struggle Against Corporate Media examines how the current media system in the United States undermines democracy, and what we can do to change it. McChesney and Nichols begin by detailing how the media system has come to be dominated by a handful of transnational conglomerates that use their immense political and economic power to saturate the population with ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Whose Streets?

    The Toronto G20 and the Challenges of Summit Protest

    Edited by Tom Malleson, David Wachsmuth ...
    In June 2010 activists opposing the G20 meeting held in Toronto were greeted with brutal and arbitrary state violence. Whose Streets? is a combination of testimonials from the front lines and analyses of the broader context, an account that both reflects critically on what occurred in Toronto and looks ahead to further building our capacity for resistance.Featuring reflections from activists who ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

  • Demand the Impossible!

    A Radical Manifesto

    by Bill Ayers ...
    The insurgent activist and educator shares a vital rally cry for today's movement-makers in "a manifesto that should be read by everyone" (Angela Y. Davis).In an era defined by mass incarceration, endless war, economic crisis, catastrophic environmental destruction, and a political system offering more of the same, radical social transformation has never been more urgent—or seemed more remote. ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Daring Democracy

    Igniting Power, Meaning, and Connection for the America We Want

    by Adam Eichen, Frances Moore Lappé ...
    An optimistic book for Americans who are asking, in the wake of Trump’s victory, What do we do now? The answer: We need to organize and fight to protect and expand our democracy.Americans are distraught as tightly held economic and political power drowns out their voices and values. Legendary Diet for a Small Planet author Frances Moore Lappé and organizer-scholar Adam Eichen offer a fresh, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Democracy Now!

    Twenty Years Covering the Movements Changing America

    by Amy Goodman ...
    A celebration of the revolutionary change Amy and David Goodman have witnessed during the two decades of their acclaimed television and radio news program Democracy Now!—and how small individual acts from progressive heroes have produced lasting results.In 1996 Amy Goodman began hosting a show called Democracy Now! to focus on the issues and movements that are too often ignored by the corporate ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Digital Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy

    Information Technology and Political Islam

    by Philip N. Howard ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Digital Politics
    Around the developing world, political leaders face a dilemma: the very information and communication technologies that boost economic fortunes also undermine power structures. Globally, one in ten internet users is a Muslim living in a populous Muslim community. In these countries, young people are developing political identities online, and digital technologies are helping civil society build ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

  • Contemporary Protest and the Legacy of Dissent

    Edited by Stuart Price, Ruth Sanz Sabido ...
    Contemporary protest, often presented in media forms as a dramatic ritual played out in an iconic public space has provided a potent symbol of the widespread economic and social discontent that is a feature of European life under the rule of “austerity.” Yet, beneath this surface activity, which provides the headlines and images familiar from mainstream news coverage, lies a whole array of deeper ... Read more

    $48.59 USD

  • The Change Manifesto

    Join the Block by Block Movement to Remake America

    by John Whitehead ...
    "The Change Manifesto is a street-by-street, town-by-town guide to making an America that works. Our nation has the potential to be an example of freedom and justice to the world and each of us has the ability to have tremendous impact. In this stirring call to arms, John Whitehead tells the stories of the local heroes who stood up to a cynical government, and who are creating thriving communities ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • Protests as Events

    Politics, Activism and Leisure

    Edited by Karl Spracklen, Ian R Lamond ...
    Can activism be considered a leisure activity? Can the Occupy movement, local campaigns for change and lone acts of personal resistance be understood as events?Within the field of Events Management the content of events is generally analyzed within three categories—culture, sport or business. Such a typology can be helpful as a heuristic for interpretation and analysis within a commercial paradigm ... Read more

    $48.59 USD

  • The Contentious Public Sphere

    Law, Media, and Authoritarian Rule in China

    by Ya-Wen Lei ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Contemporary China
    Since the mid-2000s, public opinion and debate in China have become increasingly common and consequential, despite the ongoing censorship of speech and regulation of civil society. How did this happen? In The Contentious Public Sphere, Ya-Wen Lei shows how the Chinese state drew on law, the media, and the Internet to further an authoritarian project of modernization, but in so doing, inadvertently ... Read more

    $38.19 USD

  • Thomas Jefferson's Independence Day Trivia Challenge

    by Jonathan Ozanne ...
    Liberty! The Birthday of America! Celebrate the Fourth of July with a trivia challenge featuring more than 80 multiple choice questions about Independence Day. Question topics include: Independence Day past and present; Declaring Independence; Thomas Jefferson; Signers of the Declaration of Independence; Text of the Declaration of Independence; Independence Day in countries around the world; and ... Read more

    $1.99 USD