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1 2 3 4 5 6 >>>     sort list by title | author Black Against Empire The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party Joshua Bloom, Waldo E. Martin In Oakland, California, in 1966, community college students Bobby Seale and Huey Newton armed themselves, began patrolling the police, and promised to prevent police brutality. Unlike the Civil Rights Movement that called for full citizenship rights... The Eve of Destruction How 1965 Transformed America James T. Patterson At the beginning of 1965, the U.S. seemed on the cusp of a golden age. Although Americans had been shocked by the assassination in 1963 of President Kennedy, they exuded a sense of consensus and optimism that showed no signs of abating. Debt The First 5,000 Years David Graeber An history of debt written by an anarchist-sympathizing anthropologist (and a respected one, mind you)—who better to dig beneath the assumptions taken for granted by the Western science of Economics? From blood debts in moneyless societies... El Narco Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency Ioan Grillo The world has watched, stunned, the bloodshed in Mexico. Forty thousand murdered since 2006; police chiefs shot within hours of taking office; mass graves comparable to those of civil wars; car bombs shattering storefronts; headless corpses heaped... In the House of the Interpreter A Memoir Ngugi Wa'Thiong'O Ngugi wa Thiong'o is a writer who has lived through extraordinary times. In the House of the Interpreter tells the story of his schooldays in Kenya against the backdrop of the intensification of the struggle for independence. Games Without Rules The Often Interrupted History of Afghanistan Tamim Ansary Today, most Westerners still see the war in Afghanistan as a contest between democracy and Islamist fanaticism. That war is real; but it sits atop an older struggle, between Kabul and the countryside, between order and chaos, between a modernist... Black Fire The True Story of the Original Tom Sawyer, and of the Mysterious Fires That Baptized Gold Rush-Era San Francisco Robert Graysmith The first biography of the little-known real-life Tom Sawyer (a friend of Mark Twain during his brief tenure as a California newspaper reporter), told through a harrowing account of Sawyer's involvement in the hunt for a serial arsonist who... Radical Chapters Pacifist Bookseller Roy Kepler and the Paperback Revolution Michael Doyle Long a hub for literary bohemians, countercultural musicians, and readers interested in a good browse, Kepler's Books and Magazines is one of the most influential independent bookstores in American history. When owner Roy Kepler opened the Bay Area... What It Is Like to Go to War Karl Marlantes From the author of the award-winning, best-selling novel Matterhorn, comes a brilliant nonfiction book about war In 1968, at the age of twenty-three, Karl Marlantes was dropped into the highland jungle of Vietnam, an inexperienced lieutenant in... Smoke Signals A Social History of Marijuana—Medical, Recreational, and Scientific Martin A. Lee The bestselling coauthor of Acid Dreams tells the great American pot story— a panoramic, character-driven saga that examines the medical, recreational, scientific, and economic dimensions of the world's most controversial plant. The Long Walk A Story of War and the Life That Follows Brian Castner In the tradition of Michael Herr's Dispatches and works by such masters of the memoir as Mary Karr and Tobias Wolff, a powerful account of war and homecoming... Where the Heart Beats John Cage, Zen Buddhism, and the Inner Life of Artists Where the Heart Beats is the first book to address the phenomenal importance of Zen Buddhism to John Cage's life and to the artistic avant-garde of the 1950s and 1960s, a time when the arts broke away from centuries of tradition and reinvented themselves. Mexico Democracy Interrupted Jo Tuckman In this vivid account of Mexico's recent history, a journalist with extensive reporting experience investigates the nation's young democracy, its shortcomings and achievements, and why the PRI is favored to retake the presidency in 2012. San Francisco Chinatown A Guide to Its History and Architecture Philip P. Choy JUST PUBLISHED! Both a history of America's oldest Chinese community and a guide to its significant sites and architecture San Francisco Chinatown is the first book of its kind, written by someone born and raised there. 1 2 3 4 5 6 >>>