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Set in the wake of the Mau Mau rebellion and on the cusp of Kenya's independence from Britain, A Grain of Wheat follows a group of villagers whose lives have been transformed by the 1952–1960 Emergenc…

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Mothers of Massive Resistance: White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy

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Thinking In Systems: A Primer

Meadows’ Thinking in Systems, is a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem solving on scales ranging from the personal to the global. Edited by the Sustainability Institute’s Diana Wrigh…

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Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition

In this ambitious work, first published in 1983, Cedric Robinson demonstrates that efforts to understand black people's history of resistance solely through the prism of Marxist theory are incomplete …

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Israel's Black Panthers: The Radicals Who Punctured a Nation's Founding Myth

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Hate in the Homeland: The New Global Far Right

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The Seventh Function of Language

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A Man of the People

From the renowned author of The African Trilogy, a political satire about an unnamed African country navigating a path between violence and corruption

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Decolonial Marxism: Essays from the Pan-African Revolution

A previously unpublished collection of Rodney's essays on Marxism, spanning his engagement with of Black Power, Ujamaa Villages, and the everyday people who put an end to a colonial era Early in life,…

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How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

The decisiveness of the short period of colonialism and its negative consequences for Africa spring mainly from the fact that Africa lost power. Power is the ultimate determinant in human society, bei…

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On the Edge of the New Century

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Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point

A call to reform our antiquated political institutions before it’s too late—from the New York Times bestselling authors of How Democracies Die

America is undergoing a massive experiment: It is moving, …

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The Shortest History of Israel and Palestine: From Zionism to Intifadas and the Struggle for Peace (The Shortest History Series)

An accessible, balanced chronicle of how the Israel-Palestine conflict originated and developed over the past century. The Shortest History books deliver thousands of years of history in one riveting,…

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