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  • Scenes from the American Working Class

    This Hard Land

    by Victor Bruno, Pedro Blas Gonzalez, Kevin M. Kearns, Glenn A. Moots, Aimee Pozorski, Shaun Richman, Jon D. Schaff, Christine Susienka, Mark Wheeler, Steven Michels0, Sally Parry1, Simon Stow2 ...
    Series series Politics, Literature, & Film
    What have depictions of the working class in popular culture added to our understanding of the professional lives of Americans? Scenes from the American Working Class: This Hard Land offers twelve unique and profound answers from some of the most impactful and timeless novels (O! Pioneers, Ann Vickers, and Native Son), films (Blue Collar, Wall Street, and Other People’s Money), television shows ... Read more

    $93.19 USD

  • The New Utopian Politics of Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed

    by Laurence Davis, Tony Burns, Claire Curtis, Winter Elliot, Chris Ferns, Everett Hamner, Ursula K. Le Guin, Avery Plaw, Andrew Reynolds0, Ellen Rigsby1, Jennifer Rodgers2, Dan Sabia3, Bülent Somay4, Douglas Spencer5, Simon Stow6, Mark Tunick7 ...
    The Dispossessed has been described by political thinker Andre Gorz as 'The most striking description I know of the seductions-and snares-of self-managed communist or, in other words, anarchist society.' To date, however, the radical social, cultural, and political ramifications of Le Guin's multiple award-winning novel remain woefully under explored. Editors Laurence Davis and Peter Stillman ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

  • Red Reckoning

    The Cold War and the Transformation of American Life

    by Dr. Linda Weiss, Dr. Kurt W. Jefferson, Dr. Eric Kasper, Dr. Elaine Tyler May, Dr. Peter J. Verovšek, Matt Sprengeler, Dr. Mary Beth Chopas, Dr. Tony Shaw, Dr. Francesco Buscemi, Dr. Kurt Edward Kemper, Dr. Randi Barnes Cox, Dr. Simon Stow, Dr. Eunice Rojas, Ann V. Collins, Angela F. Keaton, Charity Rakestraw ...
    Though it ended more than thirty years ago, the Cold War still casts a long shadow over American society. Red Reckoning examines how the great ideological conflict of the twentieth century transformed the nation and forced Americans to reconsider almost every aspect of their society, culture, and identity.Using an interdisciplinary approach, the volume’s contributors examine a broad array of ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • American Mourning

    Tragedy, Democracy, Resilience

    by Simon Stow ...
    How does the way in which a democratic polity mourn its losses shape its political outcomes? How might it shape those outcomes? American Mourning: Tragedy, Democracy, Resilience answers these questions with a critical study of American public mourning. Employing mourning as a lens through which to view the shortcomings of American democracy, it offers an argument for a tragic, complex, and ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • The Democratic Arts of Mourning

    Political Theory and Loss

    by Osman Balkan, Vicki Hsueh, Steven Johnston, Claudia Leeb, Heather Pool, Joel Schlosser, Charles Fred Alford, Shirin S. Deylami, David Myer Temin, Simon Stow, Bonnie Honig ...
    The Democratic Arts of Mourning reflects on the variety of ways in which mourning affects political and social life. In recent decades, political theorists have increasingly examined and explored the themes of loss, grief, and mourning. With an introduction that contextualizes the turn to mourning in previous scholarship on the politics of tragedy, this book includes twelve chapters that clarify ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • A Political Companion to John Steinbeck

    Edited by Cyrus Ernesto Zirakzadeh, Simon Stow ...
    Series series Political Companions to Great American Authors
    Though he was a recipient of both the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize for Literature, American novelist John Steinbeck (1902–1968) has frequently been censored. Even in the twenty-first century, nearly ninety years after his work first appeared in print, Steinbeck's novels, stories, and plays still generate controversy: his 1937 book Of Mice and Men was banned in some Mississippi schools in ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

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  • Wild Girls

    by Ursula K. Le Guin ...
    Series Book 6 - Outspoken Authors
    Ursula K. Le Guin is the one modern science fiction author who truly needs no introduction. In the half century since The Left Hand of Darkness, her works have changed not only the face but the tone and the agenda of SF, introducing themes of gender, race, socialism, and anarchism, all the while thrilling readers with trips to strange (and strangely familiar) new worlds. She is our exemplar of ... Read more

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  • The Daughter of Odren

    by Ursula K. Le Guin ...
    Series series The Books of Earthsea
    The Daughter of Odren is a short fantasy story of betrayal and revenge set in the world of Earthsea, in which Weed, the daughter of Lord Garnet, waits for the day she will have her father back.For fourteen years, Weed, as she is called, the daughter of Lord Garnet, has brought offerings to the standing stone. Alone in a shallow valley, she implores the stone not to forget her. To remember who he ... Read more

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  • The Birthday of the World

    And Other Stories

    by Ursula K. Le Guin ...
    “Le Guin is a writer of enormous intelligence and wit, a master storyteller with the humor and force of a Twain. . . . The Birthday of the World is prime new Le Guin. Like a tour of other countries, these splendid and necessary stories will send you back home with new eyes.” —Boston GlobeUrsula K. Le Guin has enthralled readers with her imagination, clarity, and moral vision. The recipient of ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Ancillary Justice

    by Ann Leckie ...
    Series Book 1 - Imperial Radch
    Winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Arthur C. Clarke Awards: This record-breaking novel follows a warship trapped in a human body on a quest for revenge. A must read for fans of Ursula K. Le Guin and James S. A. Corey."There are few who write science fiction like Ann Leckie can. There are few who ever could." -- John ScalziOn a remote, icy planet, the soldier known as Breq is drawing closer to ... Read more

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  • Kindly Inquisitors

    The New Attacks on Free Thought

    by Jonathan Rauch ...
    The classic "compelling defense of free speech against its new enemies" now in an expanded edition with a foreword by George F. Will ( Kirkus Reviews)."A liberal society stands on the proposition that we should all take seriously the idea that we might be wrong. This means we must place no one, including ourselves, beyond the reach of criticism; it means that we must allow people to err, even ... Read more

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  • Unfreedom of the Press

    by Mark R. Levin ...
    Six-time New York Times bestselling author, FOX News star, and radio host Mark R. Levin “trounces the news media” (The Washington Times) in this timely and groundbreaking book demonstrating how the great tradition of American free press has degenerated into a standardless profession that has squandered the faith and trust of the public.Unfreedom of the Press is not just another book about the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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