Activism & Social Justice

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506491516Author Andrew WilkesFormat PaperbackPage Count 179Imprint Broadleaf BooksPublisher Augsburg Fortress PublishersWeight(grams) 318g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781628802771Author Douglas L MurrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Ideas Into Books WestviewPublisher Ideas Into Books WestviewWeight(grams)...

"Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I am going to go fulfill my proper function in the social organism. I'm going to go unbuild walls." -Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed Drawing from over twenty years of activism on local and national...

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When towing the party line meant lying to the American people, brave government employees took to social media to share the inside scoop.Experiencing firsthand President Donald Trump's disregard for truth, rogue government employees took to social media...

"This is a book of courtroom war stories, drawn from my forty years of experience as an obscure lawyer for the underdog and the downtrodden." So begins Renegade for Justice, a memoir of a public interest lawyer driven by the cause of justice. While the...

This story explodes the popular belief that women white-collar workers tend to reject unionization and accept a passive role in the workplace. On the contrary, the women workers of Harvard University created a powerful and unique union--one that...

After China officially "decriminalized" same-sex behavior in 1997, both the visibility and public acceptance of tongzhi, an inclusive identity term that refers to nonheterosexual and gender nonconforming identities in the People's Republic of China, has...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814258989Author Lisa L PhillipsFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University Press

'With the authentic voice I've grown to expect from Devon [...] This book articulates a feeling that has lurked in the dark corners of so many minds and brings it into the light where it can be faced, embraced, understood, and ultimately, healed. Stop...

This book offers a comprehensive view of the numerous roles of justice in three education spheres--public and globalized schools, nonformal education, and the family. It develops a heuristic framework for taking account of issues related to distributive...

An insightful examination of how intersecting individual motivations and social structures mobilize spontaneous mass protests. Between 15 and 26 million Americans participated in protests surrounding the murders of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna...

Black maternal mortality statistics have not shifted in the past thirty years. The maternal mortality rate for Black patients is four to five times higher than it is for White patients. This is just one example of racism as a health and national crisis,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590566886Author Hope BohanecFormat PaperbackPage Count 388Imprint Lantern Books,USPublisher Lantern Books,USWeight(grams) 1g

"A harrowing journey through the corridors of the twenty-first century totalitarianism that goes by the name of progressivism. Must read!"- DINESH D'SOUZA"David Horowitz is a modern legend. This book is critical to understanding the left and how we...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780966765946Author Darcy OtteyFormat PaperbackPage Count 420Imprint Lost Borders PressPublisher Lost Borders PressWeight(grams) 558gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645039481Author John StapletonFormat PaperbackPage Count 450Imprint Sense of Place PublishingPublisher Sense of Place PublishingWeight(grams)...

Discover the powerful words of anti-racism activists in this vibrant, resonant collection of quotes that centres previously unheard voices while also paying tribute to those who came before. More than 100 incisive, thought-provoking passages will...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590566701Author Ingrid NewkirkFormat PaperbackPage Count 438Imprint Lantern Books,USPublisher Lantern Books,USWeight(grams) 1g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781896559902Author Jeff WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint Sumeru Press Inc.Publisher Sumeru Press Inc.Weight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 234mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781958061169Author Tim StevensonFormat PaperbackPage Count 348Imprint Apocryphile PressPublisher Apocryphile PressWeight(grams) 440gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781955905466Author EbonyJanice MooreFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Row House PublishingPublisher Row House Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593241080Author Esau McCaulleyFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint ConvergentPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 346gDimensions(mm) 217mm * 148mm...

Since 1997, the US Department of Defense has transferred more than $7.2bn in military equipment to law enforcement agencies. Furthermore, the DOD is legally required to make various items of equipment available to local police and school police...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780717800360Author Gerald HorneFormat PaperbackPage Count 542Imprint International Publishers Co Inc.,U.S.Publisher International Publishers Co Inc.,U.S...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590566862Author Melanie JoyFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Lantern Books,USPublisher Lantern Books,US

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807045282Author Yashica DuttFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593443781Author Megan KimbleFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Crown Publishing Group, Division of Random House IncPublisher Random House USA...

The Paradox of Parliament provides a comprehensive analysis of all aspects of Parliament in order to explain the paradoxical expectations placed on the institution. The book argues that Parliament labours under two different "logics" of its purpose and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781523003730Author Roxy ManningFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Berrett-Koehler PublishersPublisher Berrett-Koehler Publishers

An original argument that the answer to mass incarceration lies not with experts and pundits, but with ordinary people taking extraordinary actions together-written by a leading authority on bail reform and social movementsFrom reading books on mass...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506478623Author Heather McTeer ToneyFormat HardbackPage Count 198Imprint Broadleaf BooksPublisher 1517 MediaWeight(grams) 318g

The post-war world has become characterized by fierce new assertions of nationalism and sovereignty. Many regions - such as Bosnia, Somalia and Northern Ireland - are threatened by violent ethnic, religious and cultural strife. Almost daily on our...

A trenchant history of community organizing and a must-read for the next generation of organizers seeking to learn from the successes, failures, and contradictions of the past.The community organizing tradition is long overdue for reexamination. In...

Peasant Politics of the Twenty-First Century illuminates the transnational agrarian movements that are remaking rural society and the world's food and agriculture systems. Marc Edelman explains how peasant movements are staking their claims from farmers'...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644214053Author Marjane SatrapiFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 369g

In late 2006, Saket Soni, a twenty-eight-year-old Indian-born community organizer, received an anonymous phone call from an Indian migrant worker in Mississippi. He was one of five hundred men trapped in squalid Gulf Coast "man camps," surrounded by...

Rising Up offers a timely exploration of how truthful narratives by and about people of color can be used to advance social justice in the United States. While people of color are fast becoming the majority population in the United States, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781990263705Author Hjalmar Jorge Joffre-EichhornFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Daraja PressPublisher Daraja PressWeight(grams) 760g

The popular Washington Post contributing opinion columnist challenges readers to have uncomfortable conversations about race, drawing on the first-person perspectives of the author and Americans from diverse viewpoints and walks of life.“The United...