Men Explain Things to Me

Men Explain Things to Me
Rebecca Solnit (Author)

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In her comic, scathing essay AMen Explain Things to Me,” Rebecca Solnit took on what often goes wrong in conversations between men and women. She wrote about men who wrongly assume they know things and wrongly assume women don’t, about why this arises, and how this aspect of the gender wars works, airing some of her own hilariously awful encounters.

She ends on a serious noteA because the ultimate problem is the silencing of women who have something to say, including those saying things like, AHe’s trying to kill me!”

This book features that now-classic essay with six perfect complements, including an examination of the great feminist writer Virginia Woolf ’s embrace of mystery, of not knowing, of doubt and ambiguity, a highly original inquiry into marriage equality, and a terrifying survey of the scope of contemporary violence against women.

• Rank: #11172 in Books
• Published on: 2014-04-22
• Original language: English
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• 100 pages

Stealing America's Future: How For-Profit Colleges Scam Taxpayers and Ruin Students' Lives

Stealing America's Future: How For-Profit Colleges Scam Taxpayers and Ruin Students' Lives
David Halperin (Author)

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Americans have become increasingly aware that many for-profit colleges – the career training schools that bombard TV, websites, and city buses with slick ads promising high-paying careers – are a bad deal for students, and that some are simply scams. These schools have been caught luring students -- veterans, single mothers, and others struggling to get ahead -- with false claims about the cost of programs and the value of degrees, and then leaving them unemployed and buried in debt. The for-profit college industry has been taking more than $30 billion annually in taxpayer dollars. But when President Obama’s administration sought to hold predatory schools accountable, the industry worked to derail reforms by buying the most expensive lobbyists, the most revered endorsers, from Colin Powell to Suze Orman, and the allegiance of powerful politicians. This is a story of how Washington created a monster, one so big that it can work its will on the political system even after the facts have heavily discredited it.

David Halperin has been fighting on the front line of efforts to protect students and taxpayers from predatory for-profit colleges. His book is a heavily-reported account of the industry, the victims of its fraud and corruption, and the Washington showdown it provoked.

• Published on: 2014-03-26
• Released on: 2014-03-26
• Format: Kindle eBook

Same-Sex Marriage in the United States: The Road to the Supreme Court and Beyond

Same-Sex Marriage in the United States: The Road to the Supreme Court and Beyond
Jason Pierceson (Author)

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Same-sex marriage has become one of the defining social issues in contemporary U.S. politics. State court decisions finding in favor of same-sex relationship equality claims have been central to the issue’s ascent from nowhere to near the top of the national political agenda. Same Sex Marriage in the United States tells the story of the legal and cultural shift, its backlash, and how it has evolved over the past 15 years.

This book aids in a classroom examination of the legal, political, and social developments surrounding the issue of same-sex marriage in the United States. While books about same-sex marriage have proliferated in recent years, few, if any, have provided a clear and comprehensive account of the litigation for same-sex marriage, and its successes and failures, as this book does.

Updated through 2013, this edition details the watershed rulings in favor of same-sex marriage: the Supreme Court's June 26th repeal of DOMA, and of Proposition 8 in California, as well as the many states (New Jersey, Illinois, New Mexico, Hawaii, and Nevada among others) where activists and public leaders have made recent strides to ensure that gay couples have an equal right to marry.

• Rank: #64964 in Books
• Published on: 2014-03-28
• Original language: English
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• Binding: Paperback
• 280 pages

Libertarian Leadership: Planting the Seed for a Libertarian Future

Libertarian Leadership: Planting the Seed for a Libertarian Future
C. Michael Pickens (Author)
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In this book you will discover:

• Why right now is the best opportunity in history to regain and strengthen freedom in America.
• How minimal effort on your part can turn America around.
• How to create a healthy, safe, and prosperous country.
• How this book can improve every aspect of your life.
• How self responsibility, good character, and action can influence politics

"Each and every chapter I read, the same thought came to me: I wish I had written this book.  Michael Pickens has nicely summarized dozens of communication and leadership tips, tricks, and techniques, along with great examples, that I have sub-consciously used for years.  I keep saying to myself: YES, YES, YES!" - Mark Hinkle, Libertarian Party Chairman 2010-12

"This powerful book is packed full of practical concepts that will help to develop strong leaders within the Liberty Movement" - Judge Jim Gray, 2012 Libertarian Vice Presidential Candidate

"This book is a must read for those who choose to make the world a better place for their family, their neighbors, their community, and our country as a whole." - Tom C. Liotta, Author, "Creating Champions for Life"

"I see how the constitution has been eroding year after year and the negative results that it has had for the American people. This book is a must read for anyone who would like to restore good health, real safety, and prosperity to the American people. Get this book NOW! Before time runs out." - Larry Nicholas, Chairman, Washington State Libertarian Party

• Rank: #616222 in Books
• Brand: Brand: Gallantry Group Press
• Published on: 2012-07-24
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .34" h x 5.98" w x 9.02" l, .48 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 158 pages

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Kicking the Kremlin: Russia's New Dissidents and the Battle to Topple Putin

Kicking the Kremlin: Russia's New Dissidents and the Battle to Topple Putin
Marc Bennetts (Author)

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As 2011 came to a close, in what was a watershed moment, 100,000 took to Moscow’s freezing streets to protest the election victory of United Russia A Vladimir Putin’s party A amid widespread allegations of corruption and vote-rigging. A few months later, Pussy Riot hit headlines around the world when they were arrested following their anti-Putin demonstration in a Russian Orthodox cathedral. The vicious battle for Russia’s soul continues to this day.

In the first book to take the reader straight to the beating heart of the opposition movement, journalist and long-time Moscow resident Marc Bennetts introduces a new generation of Russian dissidents, united by their hatred of Putin and his bid to silence all political adversaries. We meet a bustling cast of urban youth working to expose the injustices of the regime and a disjointed bunch of dissenters A from AIt Girl’ hipsters to 21st-century socialists. Featuring rare interviews with everyone from Pussy Riot and top protest leaders to Kremlin insiders, Bennetts’ compelling narrative is a high-octane account of the politics and subterfuge of modern-day Russia.

• Rank: #58823 in Books
• Published on: 2014-02-25
• Original language: English
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• Binding: Paperback
• 320 pages

The Struggle Within: Prisons, Political Prisoners, and Mass Movements in the United States

The Struggle Within: Prisons, Political Prisoners, and Mass Movements in the United States
Dan Berger (Author), dream hampton (Afterword), Ruth Wilson Gilmore (Foreword)

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An accessible yet wide-ranging historical primer, The Struggle Within discusses how mass imprisonment has been a state-sponsered tool of repression deployed against diverse, left-wing social movements over the last 50 years. Author Dan Berger goes on to examine some of the most dynamic social movements across half a century, including black liberation, Puerto Rican independence, Native American sovereignty, Chicano radicalism, white antiracist and working-class mobilizations, pacifist and antinuclear campaigns, earth liberation, and animal rights. Berger’s encyclopedic knowledge of social movements in the United States provides a rich comparative history of numerous campaigns that continue to shape contemporary politics. The book also offers a little-heard voice in contemporary critiques of mass incarceration by investigation how mass incarcerations have occurred within a slew of social movements that have provided steep challenges to state power.

• Rank: #34670 in Books
• Published on: 2014-04-01
• Original language: English
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• Binding: Paperback
• 128 pages

Human Trafficking in Thailand: Current Issues, Trends, and the Role of the Thai Government

Human Trafficking in Thailand: Current Issues, Trends, and the Role of the Thai Government
Sirok Sorajjakool (Author)

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Few subjects elicit greater moral outrage than human trafficking. Media reports of dehumanizing practices such as slavery, abduction, child prostitution, and torture, along with shocking statistics, form the basis of public knowledge.

With sensitivity and candor, this book addresses the reality of human trafficking in Thailand, dissecting studies, presenting facts, and dismissing stereotypes. It focuses on the areas of fishing, agriculture, domestic work, sex work, and the trafficking of children, weaving individual narratives and official studies into the wider history of Thailand's changing economy and labor situation.

Sirok Sorajjakool is professor of religion, psychology, and counseling at Loma Linda University, California.

• Rank: #125609 in Books
• Published on: 2014-03-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
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• Binding: Paperback
• 266 pages

The War on Human Trafficking: U.S. Policy Assessed

The War on Human Trafficking: U.S. Policy Assessed
Anthony DeStefano (Author)
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The United States has taken the lead in efforts to end international human trafficking-the movement of peoples from one country to another, usually involving fraud, for the purpose of exploiting their labor. Examples that have captured the headlines include the 300 Chinese immigrants that were smuggled to the United States on the ship Golden Venture and the young Mexican women smuggled by the Cadena family to Florida where they were forced into prostitution and confined in trailers.
   
The public's understanding of human trafficking is comprised of terrible stories like these, which the media covers in dramatic, but usually short-lived bursts. The more complicated, long-term story of how policy on trafficking has evolved has been largely ignored. In The War on Human Trafficking, Anthony M. DeStefano covers a decade of reporting on the policy battles that have surrounded efforts to abolish such practices, helping readers to understand the forced labor of immigrants as a major global human rights story.
  
DeStefano details the events leading up to the creation of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, the federal law that first addressed the phenomenon of trafficking in persons. He assesses the effectiveness of the 2000 law and its progeny, showing the difficulties encountered by federal prosecutors in building criminal cases against traffickers. The book also describes the tensions created as the Bush Administration tried to use the trafficking laws to attack prostitution and shows how the American response to these criminal activities was impacted by the events of September 11th and the War in Iraq.

Parsing politics from practice, this important book gets beyond sensational stories of sexual servitude to show that human trafficking has a much broader scope and is inextricable from the powerful economic conditions that impel immigrants to put themselves at risk.

• Rank: #162697 in Books
• Brand: Brand: Rutgers University Press
• Published on: 2008-06-11
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .48" h x 6.00" w x 9.00" l, .69 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 208 pages

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Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China (Asian Arguments)

Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China (Asian Arguments)
Leta Hong Fincher (Author)

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A century ago, Chinese feminists fighting for the emancipation of women helped spark the Republican Revolution, which overthrew the Qing empire. After China's Communist revolution of 1949, Chairman Mao famously proclaimed that "women hold up half the sky." In the early years of the People's Republic, the Communist Party sought to transform gender relations with expansive initiatives such as assigning urban women jobs in the planned economy. Yet those gains are now being eroded in China's post-socialist era. Contrary to many claims made in the mainstream media, women in China have experienced a dramatic rollback of many rights and gains relative to men.

Leftover Women debunks the popular myth that women have fared well as a result of post-socialist China's economic reforms and breakneck growth. Laying out the structural discrimination against women in China will speak to broader problems with China's economy, politics, and development.

• Rank: #98448 in Books
• Published on: 2014-05-01
• Released on: 2014-05-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

The Way of Tea and Justice: Rescuing the World's Favorite Beverage from Its Violent History

The Way of Tea and Justice: Rescuing the World's Favorite Beverage from Its Violent History
Becca Stevens (Author)

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In 2012, reverend and social entrepreneur Becca Stevens began work on the Thistle Stop Café, a business designed to provide employment opportunities for the residents of Magdalene, as well as Thistle Farms, the social enterprise benefitting women recovering from violence and addiction. As she explored the legacy of tea, she uncovered not only its healing mysteries but also the dark secrets that have overshadowed this ancient brew.

• Rank: #107150 in Books
• Published on: 2014-11-04
• Released on: 2014-11-04
• Original language: English
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• Binding: Hardcover
• 256 pages

The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation

The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation
Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn (Author), Thomas P. Whitney (Translator)
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[This is the MP3CD audiobook format of VOLUME 2 in vinyl case.]

**Time Magazine's Best Nonfiction Book of the 20th Century**

In this masterpiece, Solzhenitsyn has orchestrated thousands of incidents and individual histories into one narrative of unflagging power and momentum. Written in a tone that encompasses Olympian wrath, bitter calm, savage irony, and sheer comedy, it combines history, autobiography, documentary, and political analysis as it examines in its totality the Soviet apparatus of repression from its inception following the October Revolution of 1917.

This second volume in Solzhenitsyn's narrative chronicles the appalling inhumanity of the Soviets' ''destructive-labor camps'' and the fate of prisoners in them--felling timber, building canals and railroads, and mining gold without equipment or adequate food and clothing, and subject always to the caprices of the camp authorities. Most tragic of all is the life of the women prisoners and the luckless children they bear.

Once again, this chronicle of appalling inhumanity is made endurable by the vitality and emotional range of the writing. In one truly remarkable chapter, a parody of an anthropological treatise, Solzhenitsyn achieves new heights of sardonic wit. In the final section the music changes, and he provides a magnificent coda on the possibilities of redemption and purification through suffering.

• Rank: #33072 in Books
• Published on: 1974-06
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 660 pages

World Report 2014: Events of 2013 (Human Rights Watch World Report)

World Report 2014: Events of 2013 (Human Rights Watch World Report)
Human Rights Watch (Author), Kenneth Roth (Introduction)

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The 24th annual World Report summarizes human rights conditions in more than ninety countries and territories worldwide, reflecting extensive investigative work undertaken in 2013 by Human Rights Watch staff in close partnership with domestic human rights activists. World Report 2014 gives particular focus on the roles-positive or negative-played in each country by key domestic and international figures. This year's report includes contributions from Maria McFarland Sánchez-Moreno, David Mepham, and Dinah PoKempner, with an introduction by Human Rights Watch director Kenneth Roth assessing the year's most pressing human rights issue.

• Rank: #57724 in Books
• Published on: 2014-02-25
• Released on: 2014-02-25
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 1.50" h x 6.00" w x 8.90" l, 2.00 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 672 pages

Live from Death Row

Live from Death Row
Mumia Abu-jamal (Author), John Edgar Wideman (Introduction)
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Once a prominent radio reporter, Mumia Abu-Jamal is now in a Pennsylvania prison awaiting his state-sactioned execution. In 1982 he was convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner after a trial many have criticized as profoundly biased. Live From Death Row is a collection of his prison writings--an impassioned yet unflinching account of the brutalities and humiliations of prison life. It is also a scathing indictment of racism and political bias in the American judicial system that is certain to fuel the controversy surrounding the death penalty and freedom of speech.

• Rank: #6944 in Books
• Published on: 1996-06-01
• Released on: 1996-06-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .60" h x 5.20" w x 7.90" l, .35 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages