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Fear and Fury

The Reagan Eighties, the Bernie Goetz Shootings, and the Rebirth of White Rage

by Heather Ann Thompson ...

**A NEW YORK TIMESBEST BOOK OF THE YEAR SO FAR • A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE • In this masterful, groundbreaking work, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Heather Ann Thompson shines surprising new light on an infamous 1984 New York subway shooting that would unveil simmering racial resentments and would lead, in unexpected ways, to a fractured future and a new era of rage and violence. ... Read more

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**A NEW YORK TIMESBEST BOOK OF THE YEAR SO FAR • A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE • In this masterful, groundbreaking work, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Heather Ann Thompson shines surprising new light on an infamous 1984 New York subway shooting that would unveil simmering racial resentments and would lead, in unexpected ways, to a fractured future and a new era of rage and violence.
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Governing Women

Women’s Political Effectiveness in Contexts of Democratization and Governance Reform

Edited by Anne Marie Goetz ...

Series series Routledge/UNRISD Research in Gender and Development
Though the proportion of women in national assemblies still barely scrapes 16% on average, the striking outliers – Rwanda with 49% of its assembly female, Argentina with 35%, Liberia and Chile with new women presidents this year – have raised expectations that there is an upward trend in women’s representation from which we may expect big changes in the quality of governance. But getting women ... Read more

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Though the proportion of women in national assemblies still barely scrapes 16% on average, the striking outliers – Rwanda with 49% of its assembly female, Argentina with 35%, Liberia and Chile with new women presidents this year – have raised expectations that there is an upward trend in women’s representation from which we may expect big changes in the quality of governance. But getting women
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The Baptism of Early Virginia

How Christianity Created Race

by Rebecca Anne Goetz ...

Series series Early America: History, Context, Culture
Christianity's role in furthering racism in early America.In The Baptism of Early Virginia, Rebecca Anne Goetz examines the construction of race through the religious beliefs and practices of English Virginians. She finds the seventeenth century a critical time in the development and articulation of racial ideologies—ultimately in the idea of “hereditary heathenism,” the notion that Africans and ... Read more

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Christianity's role in furthering racism in early America.In The Baptism of Early Virginia, Rebecca Anne Goetz examines the construction of race through the religious beliefs and practices of English Virginians. She finds the seventeenth century a critical time in the development and articulation of racial ideologies—ultimately in the idea of “hereditary heathenism,” the notion that Africans and
... Read more
New Directions in Women, Peace and Security

by Briana Mawby, Gema Fernández Rodríguez, Marta Bautista Forcada, Anna Stavrianakis, Jamie Hagen, Toni Haastrup, Louise Chappell, Patricia Viseur Sellers, Elizabeth Pearson, Marjaana Jauhola, Minna Lyytikäinen, Nicole George, Christine Chinkin, Sam Cook ...

What does gender equality mean for peace, justice, and security? At the turn of the 21st century, feminist advocates persuaded the United Nations Security Council to adopt a resolution that drew attention to this question at the highest levels of international policy deliberations.Today the Women, Peace and Security agenda is a complex field, relevant to every conceivable dimension of war and ... Read more

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What does gender equality mean for peace, justice, and security? At the turn of the 21st century, feminist advocates persuaded the United Nations Security Council to adopt a resolution that drew attention to this question at the highest levels of international policy deliberations.Today the Women, Peace and Security agenda is a complex field, relevant to every conceivable dimension of war and
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Emotions at School

by Reinhard Pekrun, Krista R. Muis, Anne C. Frenzel, Thomas Goetz ...

Series series Ed Psych Insights
For more than a decade, there has been growing interest in the role of emotions in academic settings. Written by leading experts on learning and instruction*, Emotions at School* focuses on the connections between educational research and emotion science, bringing the subject to a wider audience. With chapters on how emotions develop and work, evidence-based recommendations about how to foster ... Read more

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For more than a decade, there has been growing interest in the role of emotions in academic settings. Written by leading experts on learning and instruction*, Emotions at School* focuses on the connections between educational research and emotion science, bringing the subject to a wider audience. With chapters on how emotions develop and work, evidence-based recommendations about how to foster
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Fear and Fury

The Reagan Eighties, the Bernie Goetz Shootings, and the Rebirth of White Rage

by Heather Ann Thompson ...

Narrated by Erin Bennett ...

Unabridged

18 hours 2 min

**A NEW YORK TIMESBEST BOOK OF THE YEAR SO FAR • A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE • In this masterful, groundbreaking work, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Heather Ann Thompson shines surprising new light on an infamous 1984 New York subway shooting that would unveil simmering racial resentments and would lead, in unexpected ways, to a fractured future and a new era of rage and violence. ... Read more

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**A NEW YORK TIMESBEST BOOK OF THE YEAR SO FAR • A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE • In this masterful, groundbreaking work, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Heather Ann Thompson shines surprising new light on an infamous 1984 New York subway shooting that would unveil simmering racial resentments and would lead, in unexpected ways, to a fractured future and a new era of rage and violence.
... Read more

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Five Bullets

The Story of Bernie Goetz, New York's Explosive '80s, and the Subway Vigilante Trial That Divided the Nation

by Elliot Williams ...

Narrated by Elliot Williams ...

Unabridged

10 hours 7 min

**"Read this book to understand human nature." (Preet Bharara) • "An amazing story, well told.” (Anderson Cooper) • "A masterful telling." (Dahlia Lithwick)From CNN legal analyst Elliot Williams, a revelatory account of how one man, four teenagers, and a struggling city collided over race, vigilantism, and public safety . . . exposing the fault lines of a nation**On a dirty New York subway car on ... Read more

$23.00 USD

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**"Read this book to understand human nature." (Preet Bharara) • "An amazing story, well told.” (Anderson Cooper) • "A masterful telling." (Dahlia Lithwick)From CNN legal analyst Elliot Williams, a revelatory account of how one man, four teenagers, and a struggling city collided over race, vigilantism, and public safety . . . exposing the fault lines of a nation**On a dirty New York subway car on
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Dangerous, Dirty, Violent, and Young

A Fugitive Family in the Revolutionary Underground

by Zayd Ayers Dohrn ...

Narrated by Zayd Ayers Dohrn ...

Unabridged

11 hours 9 min

The son of Weather Underground radicals tells the story of a childhood on the run and a half-century of revolutionary struggle in America.Zayd Ayers Dohrn was born underground. His parents were fugitives after a decade fighting the US government; his mother was on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list. All his life, Dohrn's parents said his birth marked a clean break with violent revolutionary struggle, ... Read more

$25.99 USD

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The son of Weather Underground radicals tells the story of a childhood on the run and a half-century of revolutionary struggle in America.Zayd Ayers Dohrn was born underground. His parents were fugitives after a decade fighting the US government; his mother was on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list. All his life, Dohrn's parents said his birth marked a clean break with violent revolutionary struggle,
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Trip

A Novel

by Amie Barrodale ...

Narrated by Eunice Wong ...

Unabridged

7 hours 6 min

“Narrator Eunice Wong's perfect pacing and faultless emphasis bring Trip to life, and she adds an edge to her depiction of Sandra, reflecting her high anxiety and frustration.” —AudioFileA woman embarks on an odyssey through the afterlife to help her son, who is literally and figuratively lost at sea: a hilarious and deeply moving voyage of the body and the mind.Sandra dies suddenly at a death ... Read more

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“Narrator Eunice Wong's perfect pacing and faultless emphasis bring Trip to life, and she adds an edge to her depiction of Sandra, reflecting her high anxiety and frustration.” —AudioFileA woman embarks on an odyssey through the afterlife to help her son, who is literally and figuratively lost at sea: a hilarious and deeply moving voyage of the body and the mind.Sandra dies suddenly at a death
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Blood in the Water (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy

by Heather Ann Thompson ...

**PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • The definitive history of the infamous 1971 Attica Prison uprising, the state's violent response, and the victim's decades-long quest for justice. • Thompson served as the Historical Consultant on the Academy Award-nominated documentary feature ATTICA“Gripping ... deals with racial conflict, mass incarceration, police brutality and dissembling politicians ... Makes us ... Read more

$12.99 USD

**PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • The definitive history of the infamous 1971 Attica Prison uprising, the state's violent response, and the victim's decades-long quest for justice. • Thompson served as the Historical Consultant on the Academy Award-nominated documentary feature ATTICA“Gripping ... deals with racial conflict, mass incarceration, police brutality and dissembling politicians ... Makes us
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Motherland

A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy

by Julia Ioffe ...

NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD WINNERFINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKNamed one of the Best Books of the Year by The Washington Post, Guardian, Elle, and the Chicago Public Library.Acclaimed journalist Julia Ioffe tells the story of modern Russia through the history of its women, from revolution to utopia to autocracy.</st... ... Read more

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NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD WINNERFINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKNamed one of the Best Books of the Year by The Washington Post, Guardian, Elle, and the Chicago Public Library.Acclaimed journalist Julia Ioffe tells the story of modern Russia through the history of its women, from revolution to utopia to autocracy.</st...
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Pride and Pleasure

The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of Revolution

by Amanda Vaill ...

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHYA NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICEFINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD IN BIOGRAPHYFINALIST FOR THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE IN BIOGRAPHY**“Marvelous . . . An act not only of recovery, but of world building.” —The Atlantic“A thoroughly fascinating biography, filled with Vaill’s signature warmth, humor and insight.” —The New ... Read more

$18.99 USD

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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHYA NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICEFINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD IN BIOGRAPHYFINALIST FOR THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE IN BIOGRAPHY**“Marvelous . . . An act not only of recovery, but of world building.” —The Atlantic“A thoroughly fascinating biography, filled with Vaill’s signature warmth, humor and insight.” —The New
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