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A Black and White Case: How Affirmative Action Survived Its Greatest Legal Challeng
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by Bloomberg Press
Hardcover (30 September, 2004)
A Call to Conscience : The Landmark Speeches of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
list: $42.98 - our price: $27.08
by Time Warner Audiobooks
Audio CD (01 January, 2001)
(9 reviews) 4.22 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: A Prophetic Voice of the 21st Century: An outstanding history of the Civil Rights movement through the most famous speeches of MLK.

A Force More Powerful : A Century of Non-Violent Conflict
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by Palgrave Macmillan
Paperback (05 October, 2001)
(4 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Icing on the cause: If your a social activists, and you sometimes feel that "progress" is a lost cause... READ THIS BOOK. If you are a political organizer,
A Lawyer's Journey : The Morris Dees Story (ABA Biography Series)
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by American Bar Association
Hardcover (25 October, 2003)

A Nation under Our Feet : Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery
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by Belknap Press
Hardcover (10 November, 2003)
(3 reviews) 3.67 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: A Nation under Our Feet : Black Political Struggles in the R: This is yet another feeble attempt at passing the knowledge of lesser people in the same light as arian knowledge.
A Season for Justice: Defending the Rights of the Christian Home, Church, and Schoo
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by Broadman & Holman Publishers
Paperback (01 June, 2002)
(7 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: A remarkable and courageous book.: This is a remarkable and courageous book by a very talented student of law, religion, and liberty.

A Stone of Hope: Prophetic Religion and the Death of Jim Crow
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by University of North Carolina Press
Hardcover (01 November, 2003)
(2 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: No Sones Unturned: The Civil Rights Movement has been well covered by previous writers and I have enjoyed most writings on the subject.
Aboke Girls: Children Abducted in Northern Uganda
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by Fountain Pub Ltd
Paperback (01 April, 2001)
(1 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: this book brings tears to your eyes: Despite the writing style seduces you to finish this book the same day you have started it,

Acquiring New ID : How To Easily Use The Latest Technology To Drop Out, Start Over,
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by Paladin Press
Paperback (September, 1996)
(6 reviews) 2.33 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: THis book is (...): You'd think Benson had never written a book before. THis book is horrible. Don't waste your money
Adventure Travel in the Third World : Everything You Need To Know To Survive in Remote
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by Paladin Press
Paperback (January, 2003)
(9 reviews) 4.56 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Well written and detailed: An amazing book and easy to follow. This book is required reading for anyone who ventures into foreign lands.

Against Race: Imagining Political Culture Beyond the Color Line
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by Harvard University Press
Paperback (01 November, 2001)
(3 reviews) 4.67 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Widely misunderstood: Gilroy's polemical essay has received little attention and what attention there has been has been lukewarm or scathing.
America Behind the Color Line: Dialogues with African Americans
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by Warner Books
Hardcover (07 January, 2004)
(4 reviews) 4.25 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: A good read with several points lacking: Despite the title, this book doesn't seem to go very far beyond the color line. Although the venerated author does tackle class,

American Aurora: A Democratic-Republican Returns : The Suppressed History of Our
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by St. Martin's Press
Hardcover (01 April, 1997)
(27 reviews) 4.26 out of 5 stars
Editorial Review: Federalist accounts of U.S. history are like fluoride in the water: no strong taste or odor, its something you grow up ingesting in order to strengthen the civic faith of America's citizens. But forget about Valley Forge,
American Babylon : Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland (Politics and Society
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by Princeton University Press
Hardcover (13 October, 2003)
(5 reviews) 4.6 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: rigorous and accessible: I read American Babylon after hearing about it on the radio, and came away impressed with the author's ability to make a remarkably complex process - the interplay of surburban development,

American National Security and Civil Liberties in an Era of Terrorism
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by Palgrave Macmillan
Paperback (17 April, 2004)
An Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire
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by South End Press
Paperback (15 September, 2004)

Autobiography of Malcolm X
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by Ballantine Books
Mass Market Paperback (12 October, 1987)
(214 reviews) 4.71 out of 5 stars
Editorial Review: Malcolm X's searing memoir belongs on the small shelf of great autobiographies. The reasons are many: the blistering honesty with which he recounts his transformation from a bitter, self-destructive petty criminal into an articulate political activist,
Basic Rights
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by Princeton University Press
Paperback (28 October, 1996)

Being Black, Living in the Red: Race, Wealth, and Social Policy in America
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by University of California Press
Paperback (01 June, 1999)
(8 reviews) 4 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: One of the most thought-provoking books I've ever read: This book is both meticulous and very clearly written. Every time I had,
Ben Franklin's Web Site: Privacy and Curiosity from Plymouth Rock to the Interne
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by Privacy Journal
Paperback (01 June, 2000)
(6 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Broad and accurate - a wonderful book: Ben Franklin's Web Site is a wonderful book - clear, detailed, engaging, hype-free. So many books have been published on the topic of privacy (especially in recent years).

Black Is a Country : Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy
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by Harvard University Press
Hardcover (31 May, 2004)
(1 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: A Work of Great Relevance and Urgency...: In its simplest rendition, Black Is a Country is a work of hope that holds the potential to guide us out of our current state of racial dilemmas.
Blood and Oil : The Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Dependency on Imported
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by Metropolitan Books
Hardcover (10 September, 2004)

Breaking Silence: The Case That Changed the Face of Human Rights (Advancing Human
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by Georgetown University Press
Hardcover (30 September, 2004)
Can God & Caesar Coexist: Balancing Religious Freedom and International Law
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by Yale University Press
Hardcover (01 September, 2004)

Carry Me Home : Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolutio
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by Simon & Schuster
Paperback (05 February, 2002)
(27 reviews) 4.26 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Outstanding history combined wiht personal memoir: This is an exhaustive history [at 600 pages it is 1/3 of original length per author's notes] of the Birmingham Civil Rights campaign.
Censored 2005 : The Top 25 Censored Stories (Censored)
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by Seven Stories Press
Paperback (15 September, 2004)

Citizenship in A Global World : Comparing Citizenship Rights for Aliens (Migration,
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by Palgrave Macmillan
Hardcover (25 August, 2001)
Civic Ideals : Conflicting Visions of Citizenship in U.S. History (Yale Isps Series
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by Yale University Press
Hardcover (01 October, 1997)
(2 reviews) 3.5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: A REAL HISTORY: Civic Ideals is a book every american should read.Prof.Smith has demonstrated clearly how trough history the United States have had diferents meanings about the citizenship.I

Civic Virtues: Rights, Citizenship, and Republican Liberalism (Oxford Political Theory
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by Oxford University Press
Paperback (01 May, 1997)
(2 reviews) 4 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Not for laymen: This book is less a thought provoking manuscript on social change than the authors attempt to justify basic precepts that are already commonly accepted (if uncommonly practiced).
Civil Rights : Rhetoric or Reality
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by Perennial
Paperback (17 December, 1985)
(8 reviews) 4.12 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Jesse Jackson's nightmare: Although written 20 years ago, Thomas Sowell's book about the Civil Rights Movement reads like it was penned last month.

Civil Rights Chronicle (The African-American Struggle for Freedom)
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by Publications International
Hardcover (01 November, 2003)
(2 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Great Book!!: I highly recommend this book to teenagers because it tells you about a lot of things that you don't learn in the classroom.
Civil Wars: A Battle for Gay Marriage
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by Harcourt
Hardcover (02 February, 2004)
(7 reviews) 4.86 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: A Remarkable Journey: Just a short while ago, Vermont wrestled with an issue that's gripping our country in a maelstrom. The end result,

Constitutional Law for a Changing America: Rights, Liberties, and Justice (Con Law
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by CQ Press
Paperback (01 October, 2003)
(1 reviews) 4 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Constitutional Law Textbook being put to use frequently: I am currently using this textbook for my Constitutional Law class at Winthrop University,
Constraint Of Race: Legacies Of White Skin Privilege In America
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by Pennsylvania State University Press
Paperback (30 August, 2004)

Corporate Media and the Threat to Democracy (Open Media Pamphlet Series)
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by Seven Stories Press
Paperback (01 April, 1997)
(9 reviews) 3.89 out of 5 stars
Editorial Review: If we believe that an informed populace is an integral part of a successfully active democracy, writes Robert W. McChesney, then the commercial basis of U.S. media, in which a substantial number of media outlets are owned by a handful of corporations,
Cover Your Tracks Without Changing Your Identity : How to Disappear Until You WANT
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by Paladin Press, Boulder, CO
Paperback (September, 2003)

Database Nation : The Death of Privacy in the 21st Century
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by O'Reilly
Paperback (January, 2001)
(31 reviews) 3.71 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Fairly good treatment of an important subject: As a veteran of the technology industry, Simson Garfinkel brings an insider's understanding of how personal data is collected and managed to his book Database Nation.
Day Trade Futures Online (Wiley Online Trading for a Living)
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by Wiley
Hardcover (11 May, 2000)
(16 reviews) 3.62 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: I wonder how I've traded without it!: I found this book to be one of the most practical and helpful works on the "nuts and bolts" of systems trading.

Days and Nights of Love and War
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by New York University Press
Paperback (December, 2000)
(3 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: "A coversation with my memory": is as Galeano define "Days and Nights of Love and War". The author open the memory box and let escape the pain and the love,
DEA Stash And Hideout Handbook
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by Paladin Press
Paperback (May, 1988)
(3 reviews) 1.67 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Disappointing: This was not a book, but a list of places someone could hide something. Anyone with an imagination could write the same list.

Deception Detection : Winning The Polygraph Game
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by Paladin Press
Paperback (May, 1991)
(4 reviews) 3.5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: It Works!: This book is a georgia peach in a pineapple field. It works for self sponsored "voodoo science" lie detector tests, especially when you listen carefully,
Derailing Democracy: The America the Media Don't Want You to See
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by Common Courage Press
Paperback (01 March, 2000)
(20 reviews) 4.45 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Scary - But A Must Read & Excellent Reference Resource: I grew up believing that my country's government was good and could be trusted to do what was right,

Deterrence (Themes for the 21st Century)
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by Polity Press
Paperback (30 June, 2004)
Discourse on Colonialism
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by New York University Press
Paperback (01 November, 2000)
(5 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Excellent writing, very good perception: I read Cesaire's 'discours sur le colonialisme' in one afternoon at a coffe place and it was captivating in how intellectually he wrote,

Disguise Techniques : Fool All Of The People Some Of The Time
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by Paladin Press
Paperback (November, 1984)
(1 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: An excellent book on the art of disguise!: Disguise Techniques is one of the finest guides to the covert world ever written. It is filled with practical advice and information aimed at allowing the reader to master the art of disguise with the minimum of fuss.
Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy
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by University of California Press
Paperback (01 July, 2000)
(9 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: The race to the very bottom: "Disposable People" by Kevin Bales is an important book on the topic of slavery in our time. The author intelligently combines original cases studies and third-party research with a solid understanding of global economics.

Divided Minds: Intellectuals and the Civil Rights Movement
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by W. W. Norton & Company
Hardcover (01 April, 2001)
(3 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Slouching Towards Birmingham: Carol Polsgrove has written an insightful and provocative commentary on the caution and reserve with which most of the nation's leading liberal intellectuals responded to the U.S
Drug Smuggling : The Forbidden Book
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by Paladin Press
Paperback (September, 1992)
(6 reviews) 4.5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Borrow, don't buy: Very elementary, could have been written by anyone; including a priest. No "blow you away" secrets here. All common sense,

Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision
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by University of North Carolina Press
Hardcover (28 April, 2003)
(1 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: a decisive American life--and a first rate biography: Ella Baker must be the most underrated figure in U.S. history. There are plenty of Presidents who have done less to shape their own times than Ella Baker.
Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity
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by MacMillan
Hardcover (30 November, 2004)

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