Activism & Social Justice

Capoeira began as a martial art developed by enslaved Afro-Brazilians. Today, the practice incorporates song, dance, acrobatics, and theatrical improvisation-and leads many participants into activism. Lauren Miller Griffith's extensive participant...

'This striking book reveals collective memories of freedom struggles, despite attempts to distort or steal our inheritance' Joy James, editor of Beyond Cop Cites 'As more and more people are mobilizing against war, genocide, poverty, and extraction,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781835630167Author Zoe PhillipsFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint New Generation PublishingPublisher New Generation PublishingWeight(grams)...

Leadership for the Great Transition-a changemaker's toolkit for cultivating personal and community resilience The Regeneration Handbook offers an abundance of insights, stories, tools, practices, and resources for experienced and aspiring changemakers...

In development circles, there is now widespread consensus that social entrepreneurs represent a far better mechanism to respond to needs than we have ever had before--a decentralized and emergent force that remains our best hope for solutions that can...

As seen on ABC's The View * One of W magazine's Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2023"We reserve this space for our humanity in all of its fond, ironic, elated, grief-stricken, confused glory . . . When you find yourself alone and downtrodden, when the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781716792052Author Joss SheldonFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 703gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 22mm

"Magnificent.... A uniquely intimate history of Black liberation." - Los Angeles TimesThe long overdue story of the Shakurs, persistent fighters in the U.S. struggle for racial justice, and one of the most prominent, influential and fiercely creative...

Do you dream of a career that makes a difference? Are you ready to make the switch to more meaningful work or to take your passion project to the next level? In Do Good, Get Paid, Natalie Fee, environmental campaigner and founder of City to Sea, shares...

Greedy corporate interests have been lying to us for centuries. Here's an illustrated, entertaining road map for navigating through their hypocrisy and deceptionFrom praising the health benefits of cigarettes to moralizing on the character-building...

The inclusion of marginalised groups is a problem of modern democratic societies as representative democracy is built on principles which favour the majority. Around the world, some sections of society are silenced and actively excluded--including women,...

'A fascinating story of courage, doubt and defiance across three generations' SARAH WATERS'A fierce and beautiful book' EDMUND DE WAAL'Heartfelt and upfront... A grieving daughter rediscovers her mother's political past' BLAKE MORRISON, Guardian'A...

What fuels and sustains activism and organizing when it feels like our worlds are collapsing? Let This Radicalize You is a practical and imaginative resource for activists and organizers building power in an era of destabilization and catastrophe...

Drawing on activist campaign literature and materials, broadcast media, and new oral history interviews, Severs reconstructs and discusses the overlooked world of radical AIDS activism in England. This book provides one of the first detailed histories of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999621353Author Alex MannersFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Cavalcade BooksPublisher Cavalcade BooksWeight(grams) 195gDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm...

Total Ethics Fashion: People, our fellow animals and the planet before profit is a deep dive into supply chain issues associated with fashion around the globe. 'Sustainable' and 'ethical' fashion have a problem: they've become marketing buzzwords rather...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262047630Author Manuel LimaFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781958921524Author Ervin LaszloFormat PaperbackPage Count 398Imprint Light on Light PressPublisher Light on Light PressWeight(grams) 581gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262547420Author Tiziano BoniniFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739474805Author Micheline Sheehy SkeffingtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint M3C PressPublisher M3C PressWeight(grams) 250gDimensions(mm) 295mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954861978Author David PosesFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Sandra Jonas Publishing HousePublisher Sandra Jonas Publishing HouseWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739716240Author Ched MyersFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Lab/ora PressPublisher Lab/ora PressWeight(grams) 141gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm * 7mm

Into the twenty-first century, millions of disabled people and people experiencing mental distress were segregated from the rest of society and confined to residential institutions. Deinstitutionalization - the closure of these sites and integration of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806541884Author Pete EarleyFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Citadel Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Citadel Press Inc.,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541736399Author Tricia RomanoFormat HardbackPage Count 608Imprint PublicAffairs,U.S.Publisher PublicAffairs,U.S.

The Black Power Movement remains an enigma. Often misunderstood and ill-defined, this radical movement is now beginning to receive sustained and serious scholarly attention.Peniel Joseph has collected the freshest and most impressive list of contributors...

In the late 1980s, after a decade spent engaged in more routine interest-group politics, thousands of lesbians and gay men responded to the AIDS crisis by defiantly and dramatically taking to the streets. But by the early 1990s, the organization they...

The prizewinning author of The Ungrateful Refugee asks who is believed in our society, who is not - and why?'An ambitious and moving exploration of the borders we draw around credible victimhood that will cement Nayeri's position as a master storyteller...

Everyday resistance is about the many ways people undermine power and domination through their routine and everyday actions. Unlike open rebellions or demonstrations, it is typically hidden, not politically articulated, and often ingenious. But because...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816553433Author Kristin Elizabeth YarrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807016466Author Laura PappanoFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

'Relentless and gritty, Wendroff expertly weaves a narrative that begs, "just one more page".' J.D. Barker, New York Times bestselling authorEVIL HAS MANY FACESChilling killings terrorize a town and bring together two detectives to face the hardest tasks...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739800550Author Martin RosenbaumFormat HardbackPage Count 260Imprint Rhododendron PublishingPublisher Rhododendron Publishing

This book is the product of an endless individual and collective process of mourning. It departs from the author's mourning for her parents, their histories and struggles in Germany as Gastarbeiter, while it also engages with the political mourning of...

In 1995, in the first contested election in the history of the AFL-CIO, John Sweeney won the presidency of the nation's largest labor federation, promising renewal and resurgence. Today, less than 7 percent of American private-sector workers belong to a...

On 4 May 1970, at Kent State University in Ohio, political fires that had been burning across America during the 1960s exploded. Antiwar protestors wearing bell-bottom jeans and long hair hurled taunts and rocks at another group of young...

A visionary program for national renewal, the Green New Deal aims to protect the earth's climate while creating good jobs, reducing injustice, and eliminating poverty. Its core principle is to use the necessity for climate protection as a basis for...

For decades, conservative evangelicals and so-called gender critical feminists have worked hand-in-hand to oppose trans liberation. But how did this alliance come about? What makes it tick? And how can trans people and allies respond? In Gender...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262545211Author Dana CuffFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839013553Author Donald WoodsFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Lume BooksPublisher Lume BooksWeight(grams) 140g