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Imagining Our Dark and Stormy Future: Naomi Klein’s “This Changes Everything“
If you generally avoid reading about climate change (out of paralysis, fear or grief), read Naomi Klein's “This Changes Everything.”
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Afghanistan Survival Skills
Former US Army Ranger and conscientious objector Rory Fanning says Anand Gopal's book answers the questions that haunted him both during and after his tours.
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A Capitalist in North Korea
Meet the Swiss businessman who started a business school in communist Pyongyang.
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New Book on Worker Co-operatives and Regional Economic Development
Building Co-operative Power introduces the history and concept of worker co-operation and relates past and present stories of worker co-operatives in the Connecticut River Valley.
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A Review of Koblitz’s “Sex and Herbs and Birth Control“
According to Koblitz, the variation in pregnancy definitions allowed ample moral and ethical wiggle room for women to take matters into their own hands, so to speak.
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Mass Incarceration Found Guilty
In “Mass Incarceration on Trial,” Jonathan Simon argues that a 2011 Supreme Court decision that will improve overcrowded conditions and neglect in California prisons may also have a positive …
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More Subversive Than You Think
Rick Perlstein's “The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan” is a significant book that details the rise of the right wing in the United …
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Magical Tale Traverses the Harsh Realities of Racism and the Potential for Female Solidarity
This book is not an easy summer read.
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“Government’s Arsenal to Destroy Revolutionaries”: Political Imprisonment Persists
In his book “The Struggle Within,” about political prisoners who are locked up for revealing what's wrong with the United States, author Dan Berger shows how incarceration serves as …
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Abolishing the Broken US Juvenile Justice System
In her second book, “Burning Down the House,” Nell Bernstein shows that the fight to abolish juvenile detention facilities and decarcerate youth is far from over.