Probably closer to good than fair condition, but I don’t want to over-promise and under-deliver. There is a decent amount of highlighting in the pages, but it is still very readable.

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Virginia

Social Studies

Fourth Edition

Criminological Theory: Past to Present

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Christopher Emdin

A great gift to the educator in your life

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Reality Pedagogy and Urban Education

A New York Times Best Seller Merging real stories with theory, research, and practice, a prominent scholar offers a new approach to teaching and learning for every stakeholder in urban education. Drawing on his own experience of feeling undervalued and invisible in classrooms as a young man of color and merging his experiences with more than a decade of teaching and researching in urban America, award-winning educator Christopher Emdin offers a new lens on an approach to teaching and learning in urban schools. For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood...and the Rest of Y’all Too is the much-needed antidote to traditional top-down pedagogy and promises to radically reframe the landscape of urban education for the better. He begins by taking to task the perception of urban youth of color as unteachable, and he challenges educators to embrace and respect each student’s culture and to reimagine the classroom as a site where roles are reversed and students become the experts in their own learning. Putting forth his theory of Reality Pedagogy, Emdin provides practical tools to unleash the brilliance and eagerness of youth and educators alike—both of whom have been typecast and stymied by outdated modes of thinking about urban education. With this fresh and engaging new pedagogical vision, Emdin demonstrates the importance of creating a family structure and building communities within the classroom, using culturally relevant strategies like hip-hop music and call-and-response, and connecting the experiences of urban youth to indigenous populations globally. Merging real stories with theory, research, and practice, Emdin demonstrates how by implementing the “Seven C’s” of reality pedagogy in their own classrooms, urban youth of color benefit from truly transformative education. For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood...and the Rest of Y'all Too has been featured in MotherJones.com, Education Week, Weekend All Things Considered with Michel Martin, Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, PBS NewsHour.com, Slate, The Washington Post, Scholastic Administrator Magazine, Essence Magazine, Salon, ColorLines, Ebony.com, Huffington Post Education

For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood... and the Rest of y'all Too

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Would be excellent condition, but there are some infrequent instances of underlining in pencil and writing in the margin.

Linking Society’s Most Basic Institution to Antisocial Behavior

Families, Delinquency, and Crime

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The book is in awesome shape, with very minor blemishes on the corners and on the outside of the pages (when closed, see picture 4).

Seventh Edition

Social Science Research

Awesome condition — I did not notice any markings in the pages when flipping through. Great intro to PoliSci book, or even could be helpful for a teacher preparing to teach Government

14th Edition

Political Science: An Introduction

There are some signs of wear on the cover and some minor yellowing and infrequent markings in the pages. 

Representing Reality

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The cover shows some signs of age, but the pages themselves are in awesome condition, and I do not notice any signs of wear or markings. 

On Media Violence

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Minor pencil markings in some of the pages 

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Eighth Edition

Sociological Theory

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I would’ve listed the condition as excellent, but there is some ever-so-slight warping in some of the pages. During a flip-through, I did not notice any markings on the pages.

Sixth Edition

Cultural Theory and Popular Culture

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There are some highlighter marks and underlines, but it is very readable still. I’m not sure how much it retails for now, but I paid $44 for it pretax when I bought it. 

Religion in America

A Reader’s Edition

The Book of Mormon

A textbook I used in a Religious Studies class in college

Latter-Day Saints in Modern America

Contemporary Mormonism

Maya Angelou

Oprah Winfrey

Maya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Her life story is told in the documentary film And Still I Rise, as seen on PBS’s American Masters. Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make the world right. Maya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town, Maya and her brother, Bailey, endure the ache of abandonment and the prejudice of the local “powhitetrash.” At eight years old and back at her mother’s side in St. Louis, Maya is attacked by a man many times her age—and has to live with the consequences for a lifetime. Years later, in San Francisco, Maya learns that love for herself, the kindness of others, her own strong spirit, and the ideas of great authors (“I met and fell in love with William Shakespeare”) will allow her to be free instead of imprisoned. Poetic and powerful, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings will touch hearts and change minds for as long as people read. “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings liberates the reader into life simply because Maya Angelou confronts her own life with such a moving wonder, such a luminous dignity.”—James Baldwin

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

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William Shakespeare

Shakespeare's popular comedy of love and mistaken identity is accompanied by a section on reading Shakespeare's language, information on Shakespeare's life and theater, explanatory notes, annotated reading lists, and an essay

A Midsummer Night's Dream

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Khloé Kardashian

Perfect for any Kardashian fan and full of inspirational excerpts. The book even includes food and drink recipes. 

THE ONLY OFFICIAL KHLOÉ KARDASHIAN BOOK “There is no such thing as perfect. Nobody attains perfection. But if you keep trying, you grow and evolve, and to me that’s the point: To be a better person today than I was yesterday; to become the best possible version of myself.” —KHLOÉ KARDASHIAN Khloé Kardashian shares her secrets for finding strength of body, mind, and heart with revelatory stories of her own struggles with weight, relationships, and her self-image. In a culture that worships skinny, Kardashian writes with passion about the power of strength: a strong body lays the foundation for a strong mind, which leads to strength of heart, character, and ultimately spirit. Filled with practical advice, recipes, and compelling personal anecdotes, Strong Looks Better Naked is an inspiring meditation on how to create strength, confidence, and true beauty in every facet of your life.

Strong Looks Better Naked

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The Search for Authenticity in Urban Blues Clubs 

Blue Chicago

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Thornton Wilder

Slight yellowing of the pages due to age, but solid condition!

Our Town, the Skin of Our Teeth, and the Matchmaker

From celebrated Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Thornton Wilder, three of the greatest plays in American literature together in one volume.

This omnibus edition brings together Wilder's three best-known plays: Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth, and The Matchmaker. Includes a preface by the author, as well as a foreword by playwright John Guare.

Our Town, Wilder's timeless Pulitzer Prize-winning look at love, death, and destiny, opened on Broadway in 1938 and continues to be celebrated and performed around the world.

The Skin of our Teeth, Wilder's 1942 romp about human follies and human endurance starring the Antrobus family of Excelsior, New Jersey, earned Wilder his third Pulitzer Prize.

The Matchmaker, Wilder's brilliant 1954 farce about money and love starring that irrepressible busybody Dolly Gallagher Levi. This play inspired the Broadway musical Hello, Dolly!

Three Plays

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Joseph J. Ellis

The perfect book for the American history lover in your life! Slight warping and yellowing of the pages due to age.

The Revolutionary Generation

The introduction, discussion questions, suggestions for further reading, and author biography that follow are intended to enhance your reading group's discussion of Joseph Ellis's Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation . We hope they will enrich your experience of this Pulitzer Prize-winning study of the intertwined lives of the founders of the American republic--John Adams, Aaron Burr, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and George Washington.

Founding Brothers

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Adam. Grant

Sheryl Sandberg

Amazing condition — just ever so slight warping in the pages due to age. This book is great inspiration for someone who is looking to tap into their creativity in the name of change!

How Non-Conformists Move the World

The #1 New York Times bestseller that examines how people can champion new ideas in their careers and everyday life—and how leaders can fight groupthink, from the author of Think Again and co-author of Option B “Filled with fresh insights on a broad array of topics that are important to our personal and professional lives.”—The New York Times DealBook “Originals is one of the most important and captivating books I have ever read, full of surprising and powerful ideas. It will not only change the way you see the world; it might just change the way you live your life. And it could very well inspire you to change your world.” —Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook and author of Lean In With Give and Take, Adam Grant not only introduced a landmark new paradigm for success but also established himself as one of his generation’s most compelling and provocative thought leaders. In Originals he again addresses the challenge of improving the world, but now from the perspective of becoming original: choosing to champion novel ideas and values that go against the grain, battle conformity, and buck outdated traditions. How can we originate new ideas, policies, and practices without risking it all? Using surprising studies and stories spanning business, politics, sports, and entertainment, Grant explores how to recognize a good idea, speak up without getting silenced, build a coalition of allies, choose the right time to act, and manage fear and doubt; how parents and teachers can nurture originality in children; and how leaders can build cultures that welcome dissent. Learn from an entrepreneur who pitches his start-ups by highlighting the reasons not to invest, a woman at Apple who challenged Steve Jobs from three levels below, an analyst who overturned the rule of secrecy at the CIA, a billionaire financial wizard who fires employees for failing to criticize him, and a TV executive who didn’t even work in comedy but saved Seinfeld from the cutting-room floor. The payoff is a set of groundbreaking insights about rejecting conformity and improving the status quo.

Originals

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David Henry Hwang

Frank Rich

David Henry Hwang's Yellow Face is a mock documentary that puts Hwang himself centre-stage as he uses the controversy over colour-blind casting for Miss Saigon and the racially motivated federal investigation of his own father to explore Asian identity and the ever-changing definition of what it is to be an American.

Yellow Face (TCG Edition)

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Colleen Hoover

Snag this CoHo favorite today — you won’t regret it!! This tale follows two young people in love, meeting up on November 9th over the years. 🩷 The twist is one you won’t see coming! 

A Novel

Beloved #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Ends With Us and All Your Perfects returns with an unforgettable love story between a writer and his unexpected muse. Fallon meets Ben, an aspiring novelist, the day before her scheduled cross-country move. Their untimely attraction leads them to spend Fallon’s last day in Los Angeles together, and her eventful life becomes the creative inspiration Ben has always sought for his novel. Over time and amidst the various relationships and tribulations of their own separate lives, they continue to meet on the same date every year. Until one day Fallon becomes unsure if Ben has been telling her the truth or fabricating a perfect reality for the sake of the ultimate plot twist. Can Ben’s relationship with Fallon—and simultaneously his novel—be considered a love story if it ends in heartbreak?

November 9

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Sadeqa Johnson

This was a book club favorite of my friends and mine! 💛 Very well cared for, you can’t even tell that I read it the one time!

Called “wholly engrossing” by New York Times bestselling author Kathleen Grissom, this “fully immersive” (Lisa Wingate, #1 bestselling author of Before We Were Yours) story follows an enslaved woman forced to barter love and freedom while living in the most infamous slave jail in Virginia. Born on a plantation in Charles City, Virginia, Pheby Delores Brown has lived a relatively sheltered life. Shielded by her mother’s position as the estate’s medicine woman and cherished by the Master’s sister, she is set apart from the others on the plantation, belonging to neither world. She’d been promised freedom on her eighteenth birthday, but instead of the idyllic life she imagined with her true love, Essex Henry, Pheby is forced to leave the only home she has ever known. She unexpectedly finds herself thrust into the bowels of slavery at the infamous Devil’s Half Acre, a jail in Richmond, Virginia, where the enslaved are broken, tortured, and sold every day. There, Pheby is exposed not just to her Jailer’s cruelty but also to his contradictions. To survive, Pheby will have to outwit him, and she soon faces the ultimate sacrifice.

Yellow Wife

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Jeffry A. Frieden

David A. Lake

Kenneth A. Schultz

Good condition book with no rips or tears, some minor underlining in the text. Perfect for a PoliSci class.

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Government

Interests, Interactions, Institutions

The most complete, flexible, and affordable Comparative Politics package on the market. Essentials of Comparative Politics introduces students to the concepts that political scientists use to study and compare political systems and the particulars of specific political systems. The text is available with a corresponding casebook of 14 country studies and a reader—the three components can be used individually or in any combination. The Third Edition has been revised and updated to include the most current and relevant examples; it includes a robust suite of emedia resources for students and instructors. The Comparative Politics package provides maximum value to students—the textbook/casebook/reader package is priced comparably to most standalone country studies textbooks. FEATURES A conceptual framework that is easy for students to apply Essentials of Comparative Politics provides a clear framework based on the fundamental concepts that political scientists use to compare countries. Beginning with the most basic terms (the state, regimes, nations, political economic systems), O’Neil gives students the tools they need to make meaningful comparisons. The Third Edition is revised and updated with new data and current examples, and a new chapter organization helps students more intuitively compare and understand political systems. Up-to-date coverage of topics students are interested in Examples have been thoroughly updated to make the topics as relevant as possible for students. Updates include new discussions of Iraq, Hugo Chávez, and even the Second Life online role-playing game in the context of globalization. Student friendly pedagogy reinforces the main concepts No other book on the market has an art program that covers the concepts as thoroughly and clearly. Features include In Focus boxes that summarize important ideas students will want to review and Institutions in Action boxes that describe how institutions work around the world. Figures and tables in every chapter illustrate important points with real-world data, and chapter previews aid study with an outline of the chapter to come. Innovative emedia resources Our free and open student website includes video exercises using embedded clips from official news channels on YouTube, such as Al-Jazeera, CBS, and BBC Worldwide. These videos will also appear on an interactive Google Map. Conceptual quizzes and country quizzes on the website allow students to review key ideas from the conceptual framework of the text and key details from the countries discussed in the casebook. The Third Edition offers a library of digital images of various key places and political figures for instructors. These high-resolution images are optimized for easy integration into PowerPoint presentations. A complete package offers flexibility to instructors and value to students Essentials of Comparative Politics, Third Edition, is available with a corresponding casebook of 14 country studies and a reader—the three components can be used individually or in any combination. Essentials of Comparative Politics textbook/casebook package costs $20–30 less than the leading country studies books alone. The package of our textbook, casebook, and reader costs just a few dollars more than most standalone country studies books.

World Politics

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Edwin Arnold

Vyasa

Dover Thrift Editions

A celebrated treasure of literature and Hinduism, this is a great find!

Written in the form of a poetic dialogue, it probes Hindu concepts of the nature of God and what man should do to reach him, providing a fascinating synopsis of the religious thought and experience of India through the ages. This edition offers the classic English verse translation by Sir Edwin Arnold (1832–1904). Explanatory footnotes.

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