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2023
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It was one of the most searing images of the twentieth century: two young boys, two princes, walking behind their mother’s coffin as the world watched in sorrow—and horror. As Princess Diana was laid to rest, billions wondered what Prince William and Prince Harry must be thinking and feeling—and how their lives would play out from that point on.For Harry, this is that story at last.Before losing his mother, twelve-year-old Prince Harry was known as the carefree one, the hap...
The Anti-Civil Rights Movement
Affirmative Action as Wedge and Weapon
2024
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In this deeply researched and powerfully written exposé, Mike Steve Collins pulls back the curtain on the networks of power and influence that are pulling the strings to undo progress toward a more just and equitable society. The efforts of this anti–civil rights movement, as Collins calls it, most recently came to a head on June 23, 2023, when the US Supreme Court effectively ended affirmative action in higher education and opened the door to even more regressive policies, laws, and bans....
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Democracy in Chains
The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America
2017
EN
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**Winner of the Lillian Smith Book AwardWinner of the Los Angeles Times Book PrizeFinalist for the National Book AwardThe Nation's "Most Valuable Book"“[A] vibrant intellectual history of the radical right.”—The Atlantic“This sixty-year campaign to make libertarianism mainstream and eventually take the government itself is at the heart of Democracy in Chains. . . . If you're worried about what all this means for Ameri...
Mansarovar 1 (मानसरोवर 1, Hindi)
प्रेमचंद की मशहूर कहानियाँ
- Book 1 -
- मानसरोवर
2017
EN
कहते हैं जिसने प्रेमचंद नहीं पढ़ा उसने हिन्दुस्तान नहीं पढ़ा। प्रेमचंद ने 14 उपन्यास व 300 से अधिक कहानियाँ लिखीं। उन्होंने अपनी सम्पूर्ण कहानियों को 'मानसरोवर' में संजोकर प्रस्तुत किया है। इनमें से अनेक कहानियाँ देश-भर के पाठ्यक्रमों में समाविष्ट हुई हैं, कई पर नाटक व फ़िल्में बनी हैं जब कि कई का भारतीय व विश्व की अनेक भाषाओं में अनुवाद हुआ है। अपने समय और समाज का ऐतिहासिक संदर्भ तो जैसे प्रेमचंद की कहानियों को समस्त भारतीय साहित्य में अमर बना दे...
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
A Life
2018
EN
**NATIONAL BESTSELLER“A vivid account of a remarkable life.” —The Washington Post**In this comprehensive, revelatory biography—fifteen years of interviews and research in the making—historian Jane Sherron De Hart explores the central experiences that crucially shaped Ginsburg’s passion for justice, her advocacy for gender equality, and her meticulous jurisprudence.At the heart of her story and abiding beliefs is her Jewish background, specifically the conce...
Mansarovar 2 (मानसरोवर 2, Hindi)
प्रेमचंद की मशहूर कहानियाँ
- Book 2 -
- मानसरोवर
2018
EN
"कहते हैं जिसने प्रेमचंद नहीं पढ़ा उसने हिन्दुस्तान नहीं पढ़ा।प्रेमचंद ने 14 उपन्यास व 300 से अधिक कहानियाँ लिखीं। उन्होंने अपनी सम्पूर्ण कहानियों को 'मानसरोवर' में संजोकर प्रस्तुत किया है। इनमें से अनेक कहानियाँ देश-भर के पाठ्यक्रमों में समाविष्ट हुई हैं, कई पर नाटक व फ़िल्में बनी हैं जब कि कई का भारतीय व विश्व की अनेक भाषाओं में अनुवाद हुआ है।अपने समय और समाज का ऐतिहासिक संदर्भ तो जैसे प्रेमचंद की कहानियों को समस्त भारतीय साहित्य में अमर बना देता है। उनकी कहानियों ...
Myth America
Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past
2023
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In this instant New York Times bestseller, America’s top historians set the record straight on the most pernicious myths about our nation’s past.“Outstanding … Wonderfully accessible.” —Washington PostThe United States is in the grip of a crisis of bad history. Distortions of the past promoted in the conservative media have led large numbers of Americans to believe in fictions over facts, making co...
Lawless
How the Supreme Court Runs on Conservative Grievance, Fringe Theories, and Bad Vibes
2025
EN
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“Do you want to know why today’s Supreme Court rules like it does? Leah Litman has the answer, and it is one that people should know. It’s time to read this book!” —Los Angeles Review of Books“Leah Litman’s work leaves you fired up yet empowered to pay attention, ready to resist, and, frankly, hotter.” —Jonathan Van NessCrooked Media podcast host Leah Litman shines...
Dog Whistle Politics
How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class
2013
EN
Campaigning for president in 1980, Ronald Reagan told stories of Cadillac-driving "welfare queens" and "strapping young bucks" buying T-bone steaks with food stamps. In trumpeting these tales of welfare run amok, Reagan never needed to mention race, because he was blowing a dog whistle: sending a message about racial minorities inaudible on one level, but clearly heard on another. In doing so, he tapped into a long political tradition that started with George Wallace and Richard Nixon, and...
White Space, Black Hood
Opportunity Hoarding and Segregation in the Age of Inequality
2021
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**A 2021 C. Wright Mills Award FinalistShows how government created “ghettos” and affluent white space and entrenched a system of American residential caste that is the linchpin of US inequality—and issues a call for abolition.**The iconic Black hood, like slavery and Jim Crow, is a peculiar American institution animated by the ideology of white supremacy. Politicians and people of all colors propagated “ghetto” myths to justify racist policies that concentrated po...
Preparations
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2011
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Ronald T. Turner is prepared for anything. And the zombies are prepared for him.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Please Stop Helping Us
How Liberals Make It Harder for Blacks to Succeed
2016
EN
Why is it that so many efforts by liberals to lift the black underclass not only fail, but often harm the intended beneficiaries?In Please Stop Helping Us, Jason L. Riley examines how well-intentioned welfare programs are in fact holding black Americans back. Minimum-wage laws may lift earnings for people who are already employed, but they price a disproportionate number of blacks out of the labor force. Affirmative action in higher education is intended to address past di...











