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Price: $14.95
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Sale: $7.76
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Manufacturer: Soft Skull Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Tim Wise
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Publisher: Soft Skull Press
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Edition: 2nd
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Dewey Decimal Number: 305.800973
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Publication Date: 2007-12-28
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Reading Level: 176
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Description: Racial privilege shapes the lives of white Americans in every facet of life, from employment and education to housing and criminal justice. Using stories from his own life, Tim Wise shows that racism not only burdens people of color, but also benefits those who are "white like him" — whether or not they’re actively racist. Using stories instead of stale statistics, Wise weaves a compelling narrative that assesses the magnitude of racial privilege and is at once readable and scholarly, analytical yet accessible.
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Price: $15.00
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Sale: $6.19
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Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Dana Thomas
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Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Edition: Reprint
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Dewey Decimal Number: 306
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Publication Date: 2008-07-29
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Reading Level: 384
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Description: Once luxury was available only to the rarefied and aristocratic world of old money and royalty. It offered a history of tradition, superior quality, and a pampered buying experience. Today, however, luxury is simply a product packaged and sold by multibillion-dollar global corporations focused on growth, visibility, brand awareness, advertising, and, above all, profits. Award-winning journalist Dana Thomas digs deep into the dark side of the luxury industry to uncover all the secrets that Prada, Gucci, and Burberry don’t want us to know. Deluxe is an uncompromising look behind the glossy façade that will enthrall anyone interested in fashion, finance, or culture.
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Price: $16.95
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Sale: $8.21
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Manufacturer: Broadway
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Kurt Eichenwald
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Publisher: Broadway
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 364.16
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Publication Date: 2001-07-03
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Reading Level: 656
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Description: "The FBI was ready to take down America's most politically powerful corporation. But there was one thing they didn't count on." So reads the cover of this high-powered true crime story, an accurate teaser to a bizarre financial scandal with more plot twists than a John Grisham novel. In 1992 the FBI stumbled upon Mark Whitacre, a top executive at the Archer Daniels Midland corporation who was willing to act as a government witness to a vast international price-fixing conspiracy. ADM, which advertises itself as "The Supermarket to the World," processes grains and other farm staples into oils, flours, and fibers for products that fill America's shelves, from Jell-O pudding to StarKist tuna. The company's chairman and chief executive, Dwayne Andreas, was so influential that he introduced Ronald Reagan to Mikhail Gorbachev, and it was his maneuvering that ensured that high fructose corn syrup would replace sugar in most foods (ever wondered why Coke and Pepsi don't taste quite like they used to?). There were two mottoes at ADM: "The competitors are our friends, and the customers are our enemies" and "We know when we're lying." And lie they did. With the help of Whitacre, the FBI made hundreds of tapes and videos of ADM executives making price-fixing deals with their corrivals from Japan, Korea, and Canada, all while drinking coffee and laughing about their crimes. The tapes should have cinched the case, but there was one problem: Their star witness was manipulative, deceitful, and unstable. Nothing was as it seemed, and the investigation into one of the most astounding white-collar crime cases in history had only just begun. Kurt Eichenwald, an investigative reporter, covered the story for The New York Times and interviewed more than 100 participants in the case. He methodically records the six-year investigation, leaving no plot twist or tape transcript unexplored. While his primary focus is on deconstructing the disturbed Whitacre and revealing the malleability of truth, the portrait of ADM (and even the Justice Department) is damning enough to make anyone a cynic. --Lesley Reed
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Price: $24.95
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Sale: $13.95
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Manufacturer: Westminster John Knox Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Reinhold Niebuhr
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Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 301
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Publication Date: 2002-01
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Reading Level: 284
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Price: $14.00
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Sale: $8.32
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Manufacturer: Grove Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Frantz Fanon
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Publisher: Grove Press
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Edition: Revised
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Dewey Decimal Number: 305.896
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Publication Date: 2008-09-10
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Reading Level: 240
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Description: Few modern voices have had as profound an impact on the black identity and critical race theory as Frantz Fanon, and Black Skin, White Masks represents some of his most important work. Fanon’s masterwork is now available in a new translation that updates its language for a new generation of readers.
A major influence on civil rights, anti-colonial, and black consciousness movements around the world, Black Skin, White Masks is the unsurpassed study of the black psyche in a white world. Hailed for its scientific analysis and poetic grace when it was first published in 1952, the book remains a vital force today from one of the most important theorists of revolutionary struggle, colonialism, and racial difference in history.
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Price: $13.95
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Sale: $7.50
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Manufacturer: Vintage
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Sister Souljah
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Publisher: Vintage
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Dewey Decimal Number: 306.808996073
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Publication Date: 1996-01-30
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Reading Level: 384
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Description: Rapper, activist, and hip-hop rebel, Sister Souljah possesses the most passionate and articulate voice to emerge from the projects. Now she uses that voice to deliver what is at once a fiercely candid autobiography and a survival manual for any African American woman determined to keep her heart open and her integrity intact in 1990s America.
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Price: $24.95
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Sale: $24.95
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Manufacturer: South Florida Electric Auto Association (S F
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Michael Brown
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Publisher: South Florida Electric Auto Association (S F
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Edition: 2nd
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Publication Date: 1993-11
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Reading Level: 128
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Description: This book is the leading how-to resource for electric car conversions. It combines Brown's years of professional automotive experience with down-to-earth language even an automotive beginner can understand. It is not written for the engineer in the laboratory, but for the home mechanic building his own car, and for the average person behind the wheel. Brown speaks to the reader as if talking to a friend in his garage. Before lifting a wrench, Brown answers the most frequently asked questions about electric cars: how fast will it go, how far will it go, how long will the batteries last, how pollution-free is it really, and many more. The conversion process itself begins with choosing an appropriate donor chassis, and stripping it of internal combustion components. Here Brown's experience provide numerous tips and tricks to make the later conversion process easier and more successful. Step by step, Brown leads the reader through the conversion. As each component comes up, Brown gives a little background on the different types available, and the pros and cons of each. He includes tips on layout, design and fabrication at each step, and discusses different approaches for different chassis, such as front wheel drive vs. rear wheel drive. By the end of the book, every part of the conversion process has been discussed. Brown wraps up with a procedure for testing and troubleshooting, and guidelines for normal driving, charging, and maintenance. The book is salted heavily throughout with photos and diagrams to illustrate its topics, and it includes a very thorough index. CONVERT IT has been chosen by the Department of Energy and by numerous schools across the country as the textbook for high school electric car conversion projects.
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Price: $18.00
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Sale: $9.90
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Manufacturer: Plume
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Robert Lake-Thom
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Publisher: Plume
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Dewey Decimal Number: 398.08997
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Publication Date: 1997-08-01
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Reading Level: 224
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Description: A Native American healer explores the symbolic meanings of animals in Native American legends and tales and explains how one can get in touch with animal spirits through dreams, ceremonies, or sacred objects and places. Original."
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Price: $35.00
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Sale: $24.00
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Manufacturer: Free Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Everett M. Rogers::Everett Rogers
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Publisher: Free Press
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Edition: 5
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Dewey Decimal Number: 303.484
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Publication Date: 2003-08-16
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Reading Level: 512
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Description: In an age of ever-increasing technological innovation, this renowned volume - which has sold more than 30,000 copies in each edition - is more important than ever. DIFFUSION OF INNOVATIONS lucidly explains how inventions are almost always perceived as uncertain or even risky. To overcome this, most people seek out others like themselves who have already adopted the new idea. The diffusion process, then, is most often shaped by a few individuals who spread the word amongst their circle of acquaintances, a process that typically takes months or years. But there are exceptions: use of the Internet in the 1990s, for instance, may have spread more rapidly than any other innovation in human history - and it continues to influence the very nature of diffusion by decreasing the significance of physical distance between people. As thought-provoking as it is instructive, this fully updated, widely acclaimed work of scholarship is itself a great idea that continues to spread.
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Price: $9.99
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Sale: $9.76
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Manufacturer: Wilder Publications
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Carter G. Woodson
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Publisher: Wilder Publications
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973
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Publication Date: 2008-01-21
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Reading Level: 108
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Description: The Mis-Education of the Negro is one of the most important books on education ever written. Carter G. Woodson shows us the weakness of Euro-centric based curriculums that fail to include African American history and culture. This system mis-educates the African American student, failing to prepare them for success and to give them an adequate sense of who they are within the system that they must live. Woodson provides many strong solutions to the problems he identifies. A must-read for anyone working in the education field.
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