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<<< 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 >>>     sort list by title | author Persepolis The Story of a Childhood Marjane Satrapi A New York Times Notable BookA Time Magazine “Best Comix of the Year”A San Francisco Chronicle and Los Angeles Times Best-sellerWise, funny, and heartbreaking, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi’s memoir of growing up in Iran during the... River of Shadows Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West Rebecca Solnit The world as we know it today began in California in the late 1800s, and Eadweard Muybridge had a lot to do with it. This striking assertion is at the heart of Rebecca Solnit's new book, which weaves together biography, history, and fascinating... Perversions of Justice Indigenous Peoples and Anglo-american Law Ward Churchill The United States is readily distinguishable from other countries, Chief Justice John Marshall opined in 1803, because it is "a nation of laws, not of men." In Perversions of Justice, Ward Churchill takes Marshall at his word, exploring through a... Struggle for the Land Native North American Resistance to Genocide, Ecocide, and Colonization Ward Churchill This seminal book established Churchill as an intellectual force to be reckoned with in indigenous land rights debates. Required reading for anyone interested in Native North America and ecological justice. Revised and expanded edition.Ward Churchill... Upside Down A Primer for the Looking-Glass World Eduardo Galeano In a series of mock lesson plans, the author of the incomparable Memory of Fire trilogy provides an eloquent, passionate, funny, and shocking expos of our first world privileges and assumptions. From a master class in "The Impunity of Power" to a... Landscapes of War From Sarajevo to Chechnya Juan Goytisolo Landscapes of War: From Sarajevo to Chechnya is an incisive examination of the tensions that exist between the West and Islamic societies of Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East. These essays, originating in Goytisolo's travels in the late 1990s... Codex Espangliensis From Columbus to the Border Patrol Enrique Chagoya, Guillermo Gomez-Pena, Felicia Rice Inspired by the pre-Hispanic codices that escaped immolation during colonial invasions, this artists' book opens out in accordion folds expanding to a length of over 21 feet. Rice has created a series of beautiful and jarring montages in which the... Memories of Our Future Selected Essays 1982-1999 Ammiel Alcalay Voted one of the Top 25 Books of 1999 by the Village Voice."An outstanding anthology of essays surveying the complexities of Mediterranean cultures; the diverse, changing space of the Balkans, Middle East, and North Africa-areas of diasporas... King Leopold's Ghost A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa Adam Hochschild The "absorbing and horrifying account" (Los Angeles Times) of a megalomaniac of monstrous proportions. It is also the portrait of those who fought Leopold: a handful of missionaries, travelers, and idealists who went to Africa for work or adventure... Fantasies of the Master Race Literature, Cinema, and the Colonization of American Indians Ward Churchill Chosen an "Outstanding Book on the Subject of Human Rights in the United States" by the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights. In this volume of incisive essays, Ward Churchill looks at representations of American Indians in literature... A Little Matter of Genocide Holocaust and Denial in the Americas 1492 to the Present Ward Churchill Ward Churchill has achieved an unparalleled reputation as a scholar-activist and analyst of indigenous issues in North America. Here, he explores the history of holocaust and denial in this hemisphere, beginning with the arrival of Columbus and... Absinthe History in a Bottle One hundred forty-four proof, notoriously addictive, and the drug of choice for nineteenth-century poets, absinthe is gaining bootleg popularity after almost a century of being banned. Due to popular demand, Absinthe: History in a Bottle is back in... Open Veins of Latin America Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent Eduardo Galeano A superbly written, excellently translated, and powerfully persuasive expose which all students of Latin American and U.S. history must read.--Choice Indians in Overalls Jaime de Angulo The best-known work by the eccentric anthropologist Jaime de Angulo, Indians in Overalls is a fascinating account of his first linguistic field trip-in 1921-to the Achumawi tribe of northeastern California. The Pit River tribe had lived in the barren... <<< 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 >>>