Social Issues, Problems & Crime
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Bury the Chains
by Adam Hochschild
From the author of the prize-winning King Leopold's Ghost comes a taut, thrilling account of the first grass-roots human rights campaign, which freed hundreds of thousands of slaves around the world. In 1787, twelve men gathered in a London printing shop to pursue a seemingly impossible goal: ending slavery in the largest empire on earth. Along the way, they would pioneer most of the tools citizen activists still rely on today, from wall posters and mass mailings to boycotts and lapel pins. This...
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No Easy Day
by Mark; Maurer, Kevin Owen
For the first time anywhere, the first-person account of the planning and execution of the Bin Laden raid from a Navy Seal who confronted the terrorist mastermind and witnessed his final moment From the streets of Iraq to the rescue of Captain Richard Phillips in the Indian Ocean, and from the mountaintops of Afghanistan to the third floor of Osama Bin Laden’s compound, operator Mark Owen of the U.S. Naval Special Warfare Development Group — commonly known as SEAL Team Six — has been...
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The Crisis Of Islam
by Bernard Lewis
In his first book since What Went Wrong? Bernard Lewis examines the historical roots of the resentments that dominate the Islamic world today and that are increasingly being expressed in acts of terrorism. He looks at the theological origins of political Islam and takes us through the rise of militant Islam in Iran, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia, examining the impact of radical Wahhabi proselytizing, and Saudi oil money, on the rest of the Islamic world. The Crisis of Islam ranges widely through thirteen...
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American Terrorist
by Lou; Herbeck, Dan Michel
American Terrorist: Timothy McVeigh & The Oklahoma City Bombing (2001) is a book by Lou Michel and Dan Herbeck that chronicles the life of American terrorist Timothy McVeigh from his childhood in Pendleton, New York and military experiences in the Persian Gulf War, to the preparations for and carrying out of the Oklahoma City bombing, to his trial and death row experience.
Anarchist Cookbook
by William Powell
The Anarchist Cookbook, first published in 1971, is a book that contains instructions for the manufacture of explosives, rudimentary telecommunications phreaking devices as well as some dangerous, and in many places illegal, items; while some have merit, other 'recipes' have been shown to be flawed or dangerous or both. It was written by William Powell to protest the United States involvement in the Vietnam War. Interest in the book continues.
The Children
by David Halberstam
DAVID HALBERSTAM graduated from Harvard, where he had served as managing editor of the daily Harvard Crimson. It was 1955, a year after the Supreme Court outlawed segregation in public schools. Halberstam went south and began his career as the one reporter on the West Point, Mississippi, Daily Times Leader. He was fired after ten months there and went to work for The Nashville Tennessean. When the sit-ins broke out in Nashville in February 1960, he was assigned...
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Rough Crossings
by Simon Schama
Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution is a history book and television series by Simon Schama. This gives an account of the history of thousands of enslaved African Americans who escaped to the British cause during the American War of Independence. It tells of the legal battles in England that established that slavery was not legally valid in England itself, how the British government offered freedom to enslaved African Americans if they would fight for the king.
Social Issues, Problems & Crime Books & Ephemera
The Strange Career of Jim Crow
by C. Vann Woodward
Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2001. Paperback. Acceptable. Disclaimer:A readable copy. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. Pages can include considerable notes-in pen or highlighter-but the notes cannot obscure the text. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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$7.88
Bond of Iron: Master and Slave at Buffalo Forge (Revised)
by Dew, Charles B
W. W. Norton & Company, 1995. Paperback. Good. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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$6.02
Runaway : Wild Child, Working Girl, Survivor
by MacKenzie, Emily & Thurlow, Clifford
London: Simon & Schuster. 2013. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition - nice copy. 353 pages. From a golden early childhood through long periods in care and prostitution, Emily Mackenzie recounts her life as a survivor of child abuse. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Softcover.
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$9.78
Kakuma - Turkana, Dueling Struggles: Africa's Forgotten Peoples
by Yang, Daniel Cheng; Azam, Saber [Introduction]; Dalai Lama [Foreword];
Pangaea, 2002-08-01. Hardcover. New/New. 9x0x12. Brand new, gift worthy copy. Multiple copies available. Books that sell for $9 or more ship in a box; under $9 in a bubble mailer. Expedited and international orders may ship in a flat rate envelope rather than a box due to cost constraints. All US-addressed items ship with complimentary delivery confirmation.
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$19.87
Slavery and Human Progress
by David Brion Davis
Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 1986. Paperback. Acceptable. Disclaimer:A readable copy. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. Pages can include considerable notes-in pen or highlighter-but the notes cannot obscure the text. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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$7.34
The Other End of the Gun: The true story of Lloyd W. O'Callaghan, Jr.
by O'Callaghan, Lloyd W
Los Angeles: Lloyd O' Enterprises, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. Good +/good +. Leatherette hardcover with gilt titles, 1st edition in dustjacket. A good plus copy with some speckling to the front cover from the gilt titles. Bumping to the lower rear corner and general shelfwear at the board edges. Binding and hinges are solid as if unread. Pages clean and unmarked. Unclipped dustjacket is also good plus with ruffling at the edges and 1/2" tear at the top of the front panel, spineward -...
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$95.00
Intended Consequences: Birth Control, Abortion, and the Federal Government in Modern America
by Critchlow, Donald T
Oxford University Press, USA, 1999. Hardcover. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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$7.27
Selma, Lord, Selma
by Webb, Sheyann and Rachel West Nelson
University of Alabama Press, 1980. 1st. Hardcover. A Near FINE tight copy in a VG+ bright dj.
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$20.00
Prelude to riot; a view of urban America from the bottom, sponsored by the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions
by Jacobs, Paul
New York: Random House, 1967. x, 298p., first edition, inscribed by Jacobs and dated May, 1968, Obit for Jacobs pasted on front pastedown, dj slightly faded on the spine.
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$20.00
Southern Slavery and the Law, 1619-1860
by Thomas D. Morris
Paperback / softback. New. A history of the relationship between American slavery and the law from colonial times to the Civil War. It shows that racial slavery came to the English colonies as an institution without strict legal definitions, and Southern lawmakers struggled to reconcile a social order based on slavery.
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$90.65
Racializing Jesus
by Shawn Kelley
Shawn Kelley's groundbreaking study shows how the major intellectual movements of the modern world, such as Orientalism and romantic nationalism, become infused with the category of race. He then traces the processes through which racially-grounded thinking has influenced modern biblical scholarship.
Dynamic and thought-provoking, the book incorporates a wide range of current debate, from critical race theory to the relationship between Martin Heidegger and National Socialism. It will give every student... Read more about this item
Dynamic and thought-provoking, the book incorporates a wide range of current debate, from critical race theory to the relationship between Martin Heidegger and National Socialism. It will give every student... Read more about this item
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$35.95
HOLY WAR INC
by BERGEN, PETER L
Book slightly yellow on top edge. Covered in plastic.
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$10.83
Boston Against Busing: Race, Class and Ethnicity in the 1960s and 1970s.
by Formisano, Ronald P., 1939-
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, ©1991. Soft Cover. xvi, 323 p., illus., map; 23 cm. "Explores the sources of white opposition to school desegregation. He sees white resistance as an example of reactionary populism, a social movement mixing both populist and conservative elements. Racism was a key factor, but racial prejudice alone cannot explain the movement." ISBN (10): 0807842923. Very Good / soft cover. Stock#47532.
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The Woman Who Wasn't There. The Story of Fraud That Shocked America
by Fisher, Robin Gaby; Guglielmo Jr., Angelo J
Sydney: Allen & Unwin. 2012. Very Good condition. A couple ofsmall, light creases to lower corners. 291 pages. The story of one of the most audacious and bewildering quests for acclaim in recent memory. Tania Head's fraudulent and senseless claim to be a survivor of September 11, 2001 attack. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition (Australia). Trade Paperback.
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$10.43
The White Man's Burden: Historical Origins of Racism in the United States.
by Jordan, Winthrop D. (Donaldson), 1931-2007
xvi, 229 pages, 20.5 cm. "Examines the development of racist practices, policies, and attitudes during the years of colonization and revolution." "Much of the material in this book has been derived from White over black: American attitudes toward the Negro, 1550-1812." Stock# NEU436.
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Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, JR., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
by Garrow, David J
Harper Perennial, 1999. Paperback. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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$8.98
The Slave Trade: History of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1440-1870
by Thomas, Hugh
Paperback. Good.
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$4.02
Amos Fortune, Free Man
by Elizabeth Yates
E.P. DUTTON, NEW YORK (Apr 1950), 1950. E.P. DUTTON, NEW YORK (Apr 1950). Lime green cloth over boards, black lettering. VERY GOOD/Very Good. Drawings by Nora S. Unwin. Gold Emblem on front cover awarding the Newberry Medal The story of a man who, born free in Africa, was sold as a slave in America. Eventually he purchased his own freedom and achieved recognition as a free man, a worth-while citizen and a public benefactor at a time when slavery with all its abuses was generally accepted. E.P. DUTTON,...
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$125.00
Against All Enemies: inside America's War on Terror
by Richard A. Clarke
Very Good.
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$8.46
The End of Racism : Principles for a Multicultural Society
by Dinesh D'Souza
Free Press, 1995. Hardcover. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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$5.99
Peculiar Institution : Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South
by Kenneth M. Stampp
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1989. Paperback. Good. Disclaimer:Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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$6.30
Acts of the Anti-Slavery Apostles
by Parker Pillsbury
New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The Acts of the Anti-Slavery Apostles.
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$52.69
