Refusing Death: Immigrant Women and the Fight for Environmental Justice in La, Paperback - Nadia Y. Kim

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Reducere. Asians and Latinos comprise the vast majority of contemporary immigrants to the United States, and their growing presence has complicated America's...

Reducere. Tucked away in the northeastern corner of Alaska is one of the most contested landscapes in all of North America: the Arctic National Wildlife Refu...

Publisher: Resistance BooksIllustration(s): black & white illustrationsNumber of pages: 286Publication date: 2009Dimensions: 140 x 229 x 18Cover ty...

Publisher: University of Illinois PressAuthor(s): Jenny CarsonNumber of pages: 312Collection: Working Class in American HistoryPublication date: 20...

DescriptionThe story of Native peoples' resistance to environmental injustice and land incursions, and a call for environmentalists to learn from t...

The story of Native peoples' resistance to environmental injustice and land incursions, and a call for environmentalists to learn from the Indigeno...

A PopSugar Best True Crime Book of 2020 "The twists and turns read like a page-turning thriller, but Losing Jon is all fact. This is true crime at ...

When the Declaration of Independence was signed by a group of wealthy white men in 1776, poor white men, African Americans, and women quickly disco...

Indigenous peoples around the world are standing up and speaking out against global capitalism to protect the land, water, and air. By placing Indi...

A colourful cast of characters from Roman mythology are brought to life in this series of adventures with a fesity female heroine. Percy Jackson fo...

Publisher: Kensington PublishingAuthor(s): Lecia MichelleNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 145 x 217 x 24Cover type: HardbackRe...

Reducere. The award-winning and bestselling classic memoir about a young Chicano gang member surviving the dangerous streets of East Los Angeles, now featuri...

This book explores the difficulties experienced by objectors in the Armed Forces and those who worked on the land, and also considers women who obj...

Reducere. From war-torn Olympus to New York City, mythology and reality collide in a breathtaking adventure.

Reducere. From the author of To Die in Beverly Hills comes a harrowing tale of the dark underside of America's West Coast metropolis. Two U.S. Treasury agent...

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Reducere. This Step 3 Step into Reading leveled reader with more than 30 sparkling stickers is based on Disney's new animated film Raya and the Last Dragon--...

Reducere. Among similar countries, the United States has a unique problem with gun violence. Gun-related deaths and injuries happen at high rates every year....

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A UN official's brave first-hand account of how the organisation failed 850, 000 people in Rwanda, featuring original artwork by Spike Zephaniah St...

A reception history of William Blake's 'Jerusalem' that traces the hymn's increasing associations with national identity and explores how different...

From longtime labor organizer Jane McAlevey, a vital call-to-arms in favor of unions, a key force capable of defending our democracyFor decades, ra...

Association for Humanist Sociology 2007 Book Award co-winnerJulian Steward Award 2006 Runner-Up Over the past two decades, environmental racism has...

Reducere. "As advocate for the forgotten and the ignored, Mary Robinson has not only shone a light on human suffering, but illuminated a better future for ou...

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In the midst of a crisis of democracy, we have much to learn from Walt Whitman's journey toward egalitarian selfhood. Walt Whitman knew a great dea...

Reducere. On the morning of February 13, 1969, members of Duke University's Afro-American Society barricaded themselves inside the Allen administration build...

He tried to make a difference but instead he lost his career. A teacher is persecuted for trying to do the right thing and is ultimately dismissed ...

Reducere. When Hurricanes Irma and María made landfall in Puerto Rico in September 2017, their destructive force further devastated an archipelago already po...

Reducere. DescriptionLaunched in 1964, the War on Poverty quickly took aim at the coalfields of southern Appalachia. There, the federal government found unex...

Both an extraordinary woman's story and a nonfiction legal thriller with profoundly deep insight into the real Afghanistan.

Reducere. The young adult adaptation of the acclaimed, #1 New York Times bestseller Just Mercy--now a major motion picture starring Michael B. Jordan, Jaime ...

Reducere. Carol Ruckdeschel is the wildest woman in America. She wrestles alligators, eats roadkill, rides horses bareback, and lives in a ramshackle cabin t...

Reducere. The Gifford sisters, Grace (later Plunkett), Muriel (later MacDonagh), Nellie (later Donnelly), and Sydney (later Czira) were key figures in the Re...

DescriptionDiana Nammi became a fighter with the Peshmerga when she was only seventeen. Originally known as Galavezh, she grew up in the Kurdish re...

Reducere. The Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and New Orleans curls around an old sugar plantation that long housed one of America's most painful secre...

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Reducere. In this timely and provocative book, Damon Root reveals how Frederick Douglass's fight for an antislavery Constitution helped to shape the course o...

Publisher: HarperCollinsAuthor(s): Michael MassingNumber of pages: 1008Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 153 x 230 x 48Cover type: PaperbackRedesco...

Reducere. From beloved New York Times bestselling author and award-winning journalist Anita Diamant comes a timely collection of essays to help inspire perio...

Reducere. La muerte y la doncella, la obra latinoamericana mas representada en la historia del mundo, ha llegado a constituirse en un clasico sobre la justic...

'This book will challenge you to rethink some of your assumptions about democracy, capitalism, and globalization.' - Adam GrantHuge corporations ar...

Reducere. An astonishing civil rights story from Newbery Honor winner and National Book Award finalist Steve Sheinkin. On July 17, 1944, a massive explosion ...

Reducere. DescriptionParade has loved Jay her whole life but when he makes a big bet, which yields zero benefits, their picture perfect family begins to crum...