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  • Notorious RBG

    The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

    New York Times BestsellerFeatured in the critically acclaimed documentary RBG"It was beyond my wildest imagination that I would one day become the 'Notorious RBG." — Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 2019She was a fierce dissenter with a serious collar game. A legendary, self-described “flaming feminist litigator” who made the world more equal. And an intergenerational icon affectionately known as the ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • No Place to Hide

    Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State

    A groundbreaking look at the NSA surveillance scandal, from the reporter who broke the story, Glenn Greenwald, star of Citizenfour, the Academy Award-winning documentary on Edward SnowdenIn May 2013, Glenn Greenwald set out for Hong Kong to meet an anonymous source who claimed to have astonishing evidence of pervasive government spying and insisted on communicating only through heavily encrypted ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • One Person, No Vote

    How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy

    As featured in the documentary All In: The Fight for DemocracyFinalist for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for NonfictionLonglisted for the National Book Award in NonfictionAn NPR Politics Podcast Book Club ChoiceNamed one of the Best Books of the Year by:Washington Post * Boston Globe * NPR* Bustle * BookRiot * Ne... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • No Pity

    People with Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement

    “A sensitive look at the social and political barriers that deny disabled people their most basic civil rights.”—The Washington Post“The primer for a revolution.”—The Chicago Tribune“Nondisabled Americans do not understand disabled ones. This book attempts to explain, to nondisabled people as well as to many disabled ones, how the world and self-perceptions of disabled people are changing. It ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Burglary

    The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover's Secret FBI

    by Betty Medsger ...
    The never-before-told full story of the history-changing break-in at the FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania, by a group of unlikely activists—quiet, ordinary, hardworking Americans—that made clear the shocking truth and confirmed what some had long suspected, that J. Edgar Hoover had created and was operating, in violation of the U.S. Constitution, his own shadow Bureau of Investigation.It begins ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Derechos humanos y restricciones: Los dilemas de la justicia

    Series series Biblioteca Jurídica Porrúa
    ¿Qué es una restricción a los derechos humanos?, ¿cuántas y cuáles son las restricciones que presenta nuestra Constitución?, ¿deben observarse ciertas reglas para establecerlas y aplicarlas? Si ese fuera el caso, ¿en qué consisten esas reglas? Interrogantes que son centrales en el debate jurídico actual, en particular en México después de la reforma constitucional de derechos humanos de 2011 y de ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • I Can't Breathe

    A Killing on Bay Street

    by Matt Taibbi ...
    A work of riveting literary journalism that explores the roots and repercussions of the infamous killing of Eric Garner by the New York City police—from the bestselling author of The DivideNAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POSTOn July 17, 2014, a forty-three-year-old black man named Eric Garner died on a Staten Island sidewalk after a police officer put him in what has ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Old Sparky

    The Electric Chair and the History of the Death Penalty

    A shocking exploration of America’s preferred method of capital punishment.In early 2013, Robert Gleason became the latest victim of the electric chair, a peculiarly American execution method. Shouting Póg mo thóin (Kiss my ass” in Gaelic), he grinned as electricity shot through his system. When the current was switched off, his body slumped against the leather restraints, and Gleeson, who had ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Freedom Riders

    1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice

    The saga of the Freedom Rides is an improbable, almost unbelievable story. In the course of six months in 1961, four hundred and fifty Freedom Riders expanded the realm of the possible in American politics, redefining the limits of dissent and setting the stage for the civil rights movement. In this new version of his encyclopedic Freedom Riders, Raymond Arsenault offers a significantly condensed ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Imbeciles

    The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck

    by Adam Cohen ...
    **Longlisted for the 2016 National Book Award for NonfictionOne of America’s great miscarriages of justice, the Supreme Court’s infamous 1927 Buck v. Bell ruling made government sterilization of “undesirable” citizens the law of the land**In 1927, the Supreme Court handed down a ruling so disturbing, ignorant, and cruel that it stands as one of the great injustices in American history. In ... Read more

    $14.99 USD $4.99 USD

  • Faces at the Bottom of the Well

    The Permanence of Racism

    by Derrick Bell ...
    The groundbreaking, "eerily prophetic, almost haunting" work on American racism and the struggle for racial justice (Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow).In Faces at the Bottom of the Well, civil rights activist and legal scholar Derrick Bell uses allegory and historical example—including the classic story "The Space Traders"—to argue that racism is an integral and permanent part of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • With Liberty and Justice for Some

    How the Law Is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful

    From "the most important voice to have entered the political discourse in years" (Bill Moyers), a scathing critique of the two-tiered system of justice that has emerged in AmericaFrom the nation's beginnings, the law was to be the great equalizer in American life, the guarantor of a common set of rules for all. But over the past four decades, the principle of equality before the law has been ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • New Handbook for a Post-Roe America

    The Complete Guide to Abortion Legality, Access, and Practical Support

    by Robin Marty ...
    A completely new edition of Robin Marty's bestselling manual on what to do now that Roe v. Wade has been overturned.The New Handbook for a Post-Roe America is a comprehensive and user-friendly manual for understanding and preparing for the looming changes to reproductive rights law, and getting the health care you need. Activist and writer Robin Marty guides readers through various worst-case ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Indelible Ink: The Trials of John Peter Zenger and the Birth of America's Free Press

    "Vivid storytelling built on exacting research." —Bill Keller, New York Times Book ReviewIn 1735, struggling printer John Peter Zenger scandalized colonial New York by launching a small newspaper, the New-York Weekly Journal. The newspaper was assailed by the new British governor as corrupt and arrogant, and as being a direct challenge against the prevailing law that criminalized any criticism of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Because of Sex

    One Law, Ten Cases, and Fifty Years That Changed American Women's Lives at Work

    “Meticulously researched and rewarding to read…Thomas is a gifted storyteller.” —The New York Times Book ReviewBest known as a monumental achievement of the civil rights movement, the 1964 Civil Rights Act also revolutionized the lives of America’s working women. Title VII of the law made it illegal to discriminate “because of sex.” But that simple phrase didn’t mean much until ordinary women ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Simple Justice

    The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality

    Simple Justice is the definitive history of the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education and the epic struggle for racial equality in this country. Combining intensive research with original interviews with surviving participants, Richard Kluger provides the fullest possible view of the human and legal drama in the years before 1954, the cumulative assaults on the white power structure that ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Civil Rights

    RHETORIC OR REALITY

    by Thomas Sowell ...
    It is now more than three decades since the historic Supreme Court decision on desegregation, Brown v. Board of Education. Thomas Sowell takes a tough, factual look at what has actually happened over these decades -- as distinguished from the hopes with which they began or the rhetoric with which they continue, Who has gained and who has lost? Which of the assumptions behind the civil rights ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Open Season

    Legalized Genocide of Colored People

    by Ben Crump ...
    Genocide—the intent to destroy in whole or in part, a group of people.TIME's42 Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2019Book Riot's 50 of the Best Books to Read This FallAs seen on CBS This Morning, award-winning attorney Ben Crump exposes a heinous truth in Open Season: Whether with a bullet or a lengthy prison sentence, America is killing black people and justifying it legally. While some deaths make ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Burning Down the House

    The End of Juvenile Prison

    The nationally acclaimed “engrossing, disturbing, at times heartbreaking” (Van Jones) book that shines a harsh light on the abusive world of juvenile prisons, by the award-winning journalist“Nell Bernstein’s book could be for juvenile justice what Rachel Carson’s book was for the environmental movement.” —Andrew Cohen, correspondent, ABC NewsWhen teenagers scuffle during a basketball game, they ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Covering

    The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights

    by Kenji Yoshino ...
    A lyrical memoir that identifies the pressure to conform as a hidden threat to our civil rights, drawing on the author’s life as a gay Asian American man and his career as an acclaimed legal scholar.“[Kenji] Yoshino offers his personal search for authenticity as an encouragement for everyone to think deeply about the ways in which all of us have covered our true selves. . . . We really do feel ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Abolition of Sex

    How the “Transgender” Agenda Harms Women and Girls

    by Kara Dansky ...
    Most Americans do not understand the real threat that the “transgender” agenda, or the so-called “gender identity” movement, poses to all of us—especially women and girls—nor do they understand the extent to which it is taking over U.S. law and civil society. The simple truth is that “gender identity” functions to abolish sex, and all of our civic institutions—government, media, academia, and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Arrest Handbook

    A Guide To Your Rights

    by David Eby ...
    The Arrest Handbook is a guide to your rights and responsibilities when you deal with the police. Arrest, detention, searches, seizures and complaints are all covered in easy-to-understand language. Also included are special sections on mental health detentions, civil disobedience and protest, poverty law and anti-terrorist law. ... Read more

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  • Derechos humanos

    Series series Biblioteca Jurídica Porrúa
    Esta obra ubica al lector en los ejes esenciales de los derechos humanos, desde la evaluación histórica, el aspecto conceptual en la teoría contemporánea, el análisis de la legislación mexicana e internacional que los consagra, hasta los diversos sistemas de protección. Asimismo, se analizan las teorías más relevantes que tratan de explicarlos. Se exponen los diversos enfoques de orden filosófico, ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Liberty and Union

    The two-time Pulitzer Prize winner’s penetrating analysis of the crisis of democracy during the Civil War and Reconstruction eras.In Liberty and Union, David Herbert Donald persuasively examines one of the most tumultuous periods in American history. With the same wit, eloquence, and willingness to question received wisdom that define his acclaimed biographies of Abraham Lincoln and Charles Sumner ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus