Usual Cruelty: The Complicity of Lawyers in the Criminal Injustice System
By: Alec Karakatsanis
4.39
Format: 234 pages, Hardcover
From an award-winning civil rights lawyer, a profound challenge to our society’s normalization of t…
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1. The Alchemy of Air: A Jewish Genius, a Doomed Tycoon, and the Scientific Discovery That Fed the World but Fueled the Rise of Hitler
By: Thomas Hager
4.34
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping history of tragic genius, cutting-edge science, and the discovery that changed billions … read more
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"I would call that field of play--the place in which humans test their natural limits and often break them--science."-Thomas Hager, The Alchemy of Air: A Jewish Genius, a Doomed Tycoon, and the Scientific Discovery That Fed the World but Fueled the Rise of Hitler
2. Locked In: The True Causes of Mass Incarceration and How to Achieve Real Reform
By: None , John F. Pfaff
4.07
Format: 311 pages, Hardcover
"A succinct, powerful explanation of why much of what we think about the incarceration boom is prob… read more
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3. The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
By: Richard Rothstein
2.89
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein, a leading auth… read more
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4. Life and Death in the Andes: On the Trail of Bandits, Heroes, and Revolutionaries
By: Kim MacQuarrie
3.46
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Unique portraits of legendary characters along South America's mountain spine, from Charles Darwin … read more
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5. Are Prisons Obsolete?
By: Angela Y. Davis
4.15
Format: None pages,
With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case fo… read more
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6. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
By: Michelle Alexander
3.77
Format: None pages, Hardcover
"As the United States celebrates the nation's 'triumph over race' with the election of Barack Obama… read more
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7. We Can Remember It for You Wholesale
By: Philip K. Dick
3.65
Format: 192 pages, ebook
He awoke--and wanted Mars. The valleys, he thought. What would it be like to trudge among them? Gre… read more
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8. White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
By: Carol Anderson
3.67
Format: 208 pages,
From the Civil War to our combustible present, acclaimed historian Carol Anderson reframes our cont… read more
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9. Felon: Poems
By: Reginald Dwayne Betts
4.34
Format: 95 pages, Hardcover
Felon tells the story of the effects of incarceration in fierce, dazzling poems—canvassing a wide r… read more
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"A perfect day that's just like doom. Own so fucking world."-Reginald Dwayne Betts, Felon: Poems
"& Nicky says it's a wonder how something that can have you hold another so gently could be the ruin of all you might touch."-Reginald Dwayne Betts, Felon: Poems
10. The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World
By: Vincent Bevins
4.61
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The hidden story of the wanton slaughter -- in Indonesia, Latin America, and around the world -- ba… read more
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"locals came to him, time and time again, and asked, with genuine mystification: 'We just don't understand America. You were once a colony. You know what colonialism is. You fought and bled and died f…"-Vincent Bevins, The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World
11. Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
By: Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
4.00
Format: 157 pages, Paperback
A powerful indictment of the ways elites have co-opted radical critiques of racial capitalism to se… read more
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"A philosopher Briana Toole clarifies, by itself, one's social location only puts a person in a position to know; 'epistemic privilege' or advantage, on the other hand, is achieved only through delibe…"-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
"Elites do often make the environment worse and block solutions, but to blame the problem of elite capture entirely on their moral successes and failures is to confuse effect for cause. The true probl…"-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
"To opt for deference, rather than interdependence, may soothe short-term psychological wounds. But it does so at a steep cost: it may undermine the goals that motivated the project--and it entrenches…"-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
"As Carter G. Woodson realized, many of our decisions are shaped by decisions that someone with more power made before us. The whole social structure affects how institutional systems, like schools, f…"-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
12. On Drinking
By: Charles Bukowski
3.88
Format: 272 pages, ebook
CHARLES BUKOWSKI es uno de los escritores más conocidos y celebrados de las letras estadounidenses … read more
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13. We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
By: Mariame Kaba
4.67
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
"Organizing is both science and art. It is thinking through a vision, a strategy, and then figuring… read more
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"That does not mean, however, there should be no consequences. It means real consequences. Consequences that really matter. It means transforming the conditions that exist in the first place for this …"-Mariame Kaba, We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
14. The End of Policing
By: Alex S. Vitale
4.19
Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition
The problem is not overpolicing, it is policing itself Recent years have seen an explosion of pr… read more
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"Our standard of living is not declining because of migrants but because of unregulated neoliberal capitalism, which has allowed corporations and the rich to avoid paying taxes or decent wages. It is …"-Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing
"There is no question that American police use their weapons more than police in any other developed democracy. Unfortunately, we don’t have fully accurate information about the number or nature of ho…"-Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing
"As Jeffrey Reiman points out in the Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison, the criminal justice system excuses and ignores crimes of the rich that produce profound social harms while intensely crim…"-Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing
"Heavy-handed immigration policing will not build a worker’s movement, it will shatter it. One of the mistakes that Trump supporters make is imagining that their own economic conditions will be improv…"-Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing
15. Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms
By: Maya Schenwar
4.44
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A crucial indictment of widely embraced “alternatives to incarceration” that exposes how many of th… read more
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"The same factors that propelled mass incarceration - racism, "law and order" politics, the war on drugs, the destruction of the social safety net - also propelled mass supervision."-Maya Schenwar, Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms
"Monitors and house arrest aren't rehabilitative or transformative - they don't support people in making changes that would be helpful to their lives, gaining needed resources, addressing harm or viol…"-Maya Schenwar, Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms
"Unlike prisons, psychiatric institutions can be entered voluntarily, and people often turn to them in pursuit of treatment. But when used involuntarily as prison replacements, hospitals mimic persons…"-Maya Schenwar, Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms
"Many types of treatment claim to be about fixing the so-called problems of madness. The real problem is that certain ways of experiencing the world are seen as categorical threats— to normativity, to…"-Maya Schenwar, Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms
16. Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia
By: David Graeber
3.33
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
The final posthumous work by the coauthor of the major New York Times bestseller The Dawn of Everyt… read more
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"God and Man were inseparable companions. One day God said to Man: why don’t you go walk around on earth for a while so we can find some new topics for conversation? —beginning of a Malagasy folktale"-David Graeber, Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia
"The toothless or peg-legged buccaneer hoisting a flag of defiance against the world, drinking and feasting to a stupor on stolen loot, fleeing at the first sign of serious opposition, leaving only ta…"-David Graeber, Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia
"We would seem to be in the presence of a genuine historical anomaly: a political entity that presented itself to the outside world as a kingdom, organized around the charismatic figure of a brilliant…"-David Graeber, Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia
17. Nice Racism: How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm
By: Robin DiAngelo
3.96
Format: 220 pages, Kindle Edition
In Nice Racism, her follow-up work to White Fragility, the author draws on her background as a soci… read more
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"…every moment that I spend in white space reinforces in me a particular (and limited) worldview and experience. But the deeper message being reinforced is that we lose nothing of value by living in s…"-Robin DiAngelo, Nice Racism: How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm
18. Usual Cruelty: The Complicity of Lawyers in the Criminal Injustice System
By: Alec Karakatsanis
4.39
Format: 234 pages, Hardcover
From an award-winning civil rights lawyer, a profound challenge to our society’s normalization of t… read more
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19. Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom
By: Derecka Purnell
4.44
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
For more than a century, activists in the United States have tried to reform the police. From commu… read more
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"The systems responsible for our oppression cannot be the same systems responsible for our liberation."-Derecka Purnell, Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom
"Campus police and street police are different strands of the same supremacy that plague our resistance."-Derecka Purnell, Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom
20. The Cult of the Constitution
By: Mary Anne Franks
4.04
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In this controversial and provocative book, Mary Anne Franks examines the thin line between constit… read more
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21. Guilty People
By: Abbe Smith
4.62
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
Criminal defense attorneys protect the innocent and guilty alike, but, the majority of criminal def… read more
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