Lucy Parsons

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Wear on cover and end of pages, binding is damaged. Readable condition, no markings on pages

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Writings and Speeches, 1878-1937

Edited and introduced by Gale Ahrens, here, for the first time, is a hefty selection of the writings and speeches of the woman the Chicago police called 'More dangerous than a thousand rioters!' "Lucy Parsons' writings are among the best and strongest in the history of US anarchism. ...Her long and often traumatic experience of the capitalist injustice system - from the KKK terror in her youth, through Haymarket and the judicial murder of her husband, to the US government's war on the Wobblies - made her not 'just another victim' but an extraordinarily articulate witness to, and vehement crusader against, all injustice." [from the introduction by Gale Ahrens] "Lucy Parsons personae and historical role provide material for the makings of a truly exemplary figure.....anarchist, labor organizer, writer, editor, publisher, and dynamic speaker, a woman of color of mixed black, Mexican and Native American heritage, a founder of the 1880s Chicago Working women's Union that organized garment workers, called for equal pay for equal work, and even invited housewives to join with the demand of wages for housework; and later (1905) co-founder of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), which made the organizing of women and people of color a priority....For a better understanding of the concept of direct action and its implications, no other historical figure can match the lessons provided by Lucy Parsons." [from the Afterword by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz]

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Bill Hillmann

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

A Novel

Precocious Chicago teenager Joe Walsh witnesses his heroin-addicted brother commit murder, precipitating a violent spiral that tears his family apart.

The Old Neighborhood

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Judith L. Herman

Wear and tear on cover, pages in good unmarked condition 

The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror

WhenTrauma and Recovery was first published in 1992, it was hailed as a groundbreaking work. In the intervening years, Herman's volume has changed the way we think about and treat traumatic events and trauma victims. In a new afterword, Herman chronicles the incredible response the book has elicited and explains how the issues surrounding the topic have shifted within the clinical community and the culture at large.Trauma and Recovery brings a new level of understanding to a set of problems usually considered individually. Herman draws on her own cutting-edge research in domestic violence as well as on the vast literature of combat veterans and victims of political terror, to show the parallels between private terrors such as rape and public traumas such as terrorism. The book puts individual experience in a broader political frame, arguing that psychological trauma can be understood only in a social context. Meticulously documented and frequently using the victims' own words as well as those from classic literary works and prison diaries,Trauma and Recovery is a powerful work that will continue to profoundly impact our thinking.

Trauma and Recovery

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Albert Camus

Some wear and tear on cover, pages are in excellent condition.

An ordinary man is unwittingly caught up in a senseless murder in Algeria

The Stranger

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Charles. Dickens

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

First-person narrative about "Pip", whose acquired wealth proves ephemeral and whose love affair is also "a great expectation."

Great Expectations

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J. G. Ballard

Ned Beauman

From the author of 'Crash' and 'Cocaine Nights' comes an unnerving tale of life in a modern tower block running out of control.

Within the concealing walls of an elegant forty-storey tower block, the affluent tenants are hell-bent on an orgy of destruction. Cocktail parties degenerate into marauding attacks on 'enemy' floors and the once-luxurious amenities become an arena for riots and technological mayhem.



In this visionary tale of urban disillusionment society slips into a violent reverse as the isolated inhabitants of the high-rise, driven by primal urges, create a dystopian world ruled by the laws of the jungle.



This edition is part of a new commemorative series of Ballard's works, featuring introductions from a number of his admirers (including Iain Sinclair, Ali Smith, Neil Gaiman and Martin Amis) and brand-new cover designs.

High-Rise

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Rhacel Salazar Parreñas

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Cultures, Technologies, and the Politics of Care

This book advances debates over the relationship between care and economy through the concept of intimate labor—care, domestic, and sex work—and thus charts relations of race, class, gender, sexuality, and citizenship in the context of global economic transformations.

Intimate Labors

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Chuck Klosterman

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Grappling with Villains (Real and Imagined)

Chuck Klosterman has walked into the darkness. As a boy, he related to the cultural figures who represented goodness-but as an adult, he found himself unconsciously aligning with their enemies. This was not because he necessarily liked what they were doing; it was because they were doing it on purpose (and they were doing it better). They wanted to be evil. And what, exactly, was that supposed to mean? When we classify someone as a bad person, what are we really saying (and why are we so obsessed with saying it)? In I Wear the Black Hat, Klosterman questions the very nature of how modern people understand the concept of villainy. What was so Machiavellian about Machiavelli? Why don't we see Batman the same way we see Bernhard Goetz? Who's more worthy of our vitriol-Bill Clinton or Don Henley? What was O.J. Simpson's second-worst decision? And why is Klosterman still obsessed with some kid he knew for one week in 1985?
Masterfully blending cultural analysis with self-interrogation and limitless imagination, I Wear the Black Hat delivers perceptive observations on the complexity of the anti-hero (seemingly the only kind of hero America still creates). I Wear the Black Hat is the rare example of serious criticism that's instantly accessible and really, really funny. Klosterman is the only writer doing whatever it is he's doing.

I Wear the Black Hat

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Jacqueline Jones

Black Women, Work, and the Family from Slavery to the Present

A powerful account of the changing role of American black women in the labor force and in the family.

Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Damion Searls

Chad Wellmon

On the Future of Our Educational Institutions

AN NYRB Classics Original In 1869, at the age of twenty-four, the precociously brilliant Friedrich Nietzsche was appointed to a professorship of classical philology at the University of Basel. He seemed marked for a successful and conventional academic career. Then the philosophy of Schopenhauer and the music of Wagner transformed his ambitions. The genius of such thinkers and makers—the kind of genius that had emerged in ancient Greece—this alone was the touchstone for true understanding. But how was education to serve genius, especially in a modern society marked more and more by an unholy alliance between academic specialization, mass-market journalism, and the militarized state? Something more than sturdy scholarship was called for. A new way of teaching and questioning, a new philosophy . . . What that new way might be was the question Nietzsche broached in five vivid, popular public lectures in Basel in 1872. Anti-Education presents a provocative and timely reckoning with what remains one of the central challenges of the modern world.

Anti-Education

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Erik Larson

A portrait of the Edwardian era recounts two parallel stories--the case of Dr. Hawley Crippen, who murdered his wife and fled to America, and Guglielmo Marconi, the inventor of wireless communication--as the new technology is used to capture a killer.

Thunderstruck

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Betty White

(and of Course You Won't)

The New York Times bestseller from the beloved actress and Hollywood icon who's made us laugh on shows from The Mary Tyler Moore Show to Golden Girls to Saturday Night Live!

In this candid take on everything from the unglamorous reality behind red-carpet affairs to her beauty regimen ("I have no idea what color my hair is, and I never intend to find out"), Betty White shares her observations about life, celebrity, and love (for humans and animals). Filled with photos, If You Ask Me is funny, sweet, and straight to the point--just like Betty.

If You Ask Me

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Carol Burnett

Laughter and Reflection

This touching and hilarious memoiris 100 percent Carol Burnett-funny, irreverent, and irresistible.

Carol Burnett is one of the most beloved and revered actresses and performers in America. The Carol Burnett Show was seen each week by millions of adoring fans and won twenty-five Emmys in its remarkable eleven-year run. Now, in This Time Together, Carol really lets her hair down and tells one funny or touching or memorable story after another.

In engaging anecdotes, Carol discusses her remarkable friendships with stars such as Jimmy Stewart, Lucille Ball, Cary Grant, and Julie Andrews; the background behind famous scenes, like the moment she swept down the stairs in her curtain-rod dress in the legendary "Went with the Wind" skit; and things that would happen only to Carol-the prank with Julie Andrews that went wrong in front of the First Lady; the famous Tarzan Yell that saved her during a mugging; and the time she faked a wooden leg to get served in a famous ice cream emporium.

This poignant look back allows us to cry with the actress during her sorrows, rejoice in her successes, and finally, always, to laugh.

This Time Together

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Naomi Klein

Readable, some highlighting on the pages.

Capitalism vs. the Climate

The best-selling author of The Shock Doctor explains why the environmental crisis challenges us to abandon "free market" ideologies and remake political systems, arguing that a massive reduction of greenhouse emissions may offer a best chance for correcting economic challenges. 150,000 first printing.

This Changes Everything

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Rich Shapero

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

What does it take to show our true self to the one we love? Kell is an American botanist working in Malaysia. He meets the engaging and alluring Nitti and is instantly smitten, but getting to know her is anything but straightforward. Open and childlike one moment, guarded and invulnerable the next, she ducks and vacillates, and keeps Kell guessing why. Nitti’s mother lies paralyzed in a far corner of their home, tended by a sinister housekeeper who exerts a mystifying control over Nitti and her father. Still, Kell believes he’s found the woman of his dreams, and he perseveres. And Nitti seems to encourage him, leading him to a secret jungle sanctuary, then deeper, to the black waters of a swamp she calls “Keributan,” where a monstrous creature lurks . . . With lushly drawn metaphor and unflinching candor and empathy, Hibiscus Mask offers a gripping psychological mystery about the preconditions for love and the tragic cost of hidden identity.

Hibiscus Mask

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Join a girl on the cusp of womanhood in a primeval jungle, and brave a descent into our dark origins. Feud with teenage tribes in the ancient jungle inside us all.

Beneath Caaqi's Wings

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Escape with a disaffected young sculptor from a desert dystopia to “heaven,” a blue ocean realm ruled by a perverse, tentacled god with a mysterious purpose. Your trust may be outraged, but dive deeper and you’ll uncover clues to the creative sea change in our ideals that could redeem a desolate world.

Arms from the Sea

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John D. Preston

John H. O'Neal

Mary C. Talaga

This third edition of Child and Adolescent Clinical Psychopharmacology Made Simple provides parents, patients, therapists, and health care professionals all they need to know about the use of psychoactive medications in the treatment of childhood and adolescent psychological disorders in easy-to-understand language. Readers will find updated DSM-V definitions; new information regarding teen use of antidepressants and suicidality; information on ADHD, bipolar disorder, and eating disorders in children and adolescents; the use of antipsychotics in children and adolescents; non-medication approaches; and more.

Child and Adolescent Clinical Psychopharmacology Made Simple

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Diane W. Middlebrook

Wear and tear on the dustcover but pages are in decent and readable condition. No markings or tears.

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

A Biography

A biography of Anne Sexton explores the work and the tormented emotional life of the powerful American poet, a woman who struggled with mental illness throughout her career, finally taking her own life in 1974

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Lucy Parsons; Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Lucy Parsons

Bill Hillmann

The Old Neighborhood

Judith L. Herman

Trauma and Recovery

Albert Camus

The Stranger

Charles. Dickens

Great Expectations

J. G. Ballard; Ned Beauman

High-Rise

Rhacel Salazar Parreñas

Intimate Labors

Chuck Klosterman

I Wear the Black Hat

Jacqueline Jones

Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow

Friedrich Nietzsche; Damion Searls; Chad Wellmon

Anti-Education

Erik Larson

Thunderstruck

Betty White

If You Ask Me

Carol Burnett

This Time Together

Naomi Klein

This Changes Everything

Rich Shapero

Hibiscus Mask

Rich Shapero

Beneath Caaqi's Wings

Rich Shapero

Arms from the Sea

John D. Preston; John H. O'Neal; Mary C. Talaga

Child and Adolescent Clinical Psychopharmacology Made Simple

Diane W. Middlebrook

Anne Sexton

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