Jenny Nordberg

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Michigan

In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan

An award-winning foreign correspondent who contributed to a Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times series reveals the secret Afghan custom of disguising girls as boys to improve their prospects, discussing its political and social significance as well as the experiences of its practitioners. 30,000 first printing.

The Underground Girls of Kabul

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

New Jersey

Nelson Mandela, who courageously dealt with adversity and emerged a world leader, has been an inspirational role model for millions of people around the world, from students to presidents. After being imprisoned for 27 years, in 1994 he became South Africa's first democratically-elected president and shared the Nobel Peace Prize. Mandela died in 2013, but his legacy lives on as a barrier-breaker and humanitarian. Learn all about his life, especially the challenges he faced and how he persevered, in this thoughtful biography.

National Geographic Readers: Nelson Mandela

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Minnesota

On a dark night in Lusaka, Zambia, an adolescent girl is brutally assaulted. In shock, she cannot speak. Her identity is a mystery. Zoe Fleming, a human rights lawyer working in Africa, takes up her case...

The Garden of Burning Sand

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Kenneth Wooden

Light shelf wear on the jacket confined to the edges. Subtle. Pages in great shape. Low mileage. Crisp and clean. No dog ears or scribbles. Please see photos for reference.

Ohio

The Plight of Incarcerated Children

"Where are America's children tonight? Over 50,000 of them between the ages of five and sixteen are locked away in prisons though they are innocent of any crime. These prisons are called detention centers, reform schools, and training schools-but there are no euphemisms for their brutality and their cruelty. They constitute a child-care system that perpetuates such conditions as: the Florida facility which punishes by subjecting them to mock burials, a Southern school for disturbed children which regularly employs bull whips and leg irons to restrain its charges, a Texas facility that finds an electric "bull shocker" an effective disciplinary measure, a psychotic child in an Arizona detention center who escaped solitary confinement the only way he knew: he killed himself by violently flipping his body over a bar and breaking his neck. These are not isolated instances; they indicate a shocking pattern of child abuse and experimentation that has become a virtual business in this country. This gripping expose reveals for the first time on a national scale the grim truth of our juvenile jails and constitutes an indictment of an exploitive system maintained at staggering public expense and immeasurable human cost. It exposes the "politics" of incarcerating young children to perpetuate the penal-institution industry, the politics of jobs, of corruption, of professional power and greed, and, most damning, the politics of misinforming the public while innocent children are destroyed generation after generation" -- Dust jacket.

Weeping in the Playtime of Others

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Oregon

Everyday Life in the Hermit Kingdom

This unique book provides a comprehensive overview of all aspects of life in North Korea today. Drawing on decades of insider knowledge and experience, noted experts Ralph Hassig and Kongdan Oh explore a world few outsiders can imagine. In vivid detail, the authors describe how the secretive and authoritarian government of Kim Jong-il shapes every aspect of its citizen's lives, how the command socialist economy has utterly failed, and how ordinary individuals struggle to survive through small-scale capitalism. North Koreans remain hungry and oppressed, yet the outside world is slowly filtering in, and the book concludes by urging the United States to flood North Korea with open information so that its people can make decisions based on truth rather than their dictator's ubiquitous propaganda.

The Hidden People of North Korea

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Simon Wiesenthal

On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness

Presents new responses to the ethical question posed by the author in the 1976 edition of "The Sunflower" in which he tells how he, as a prisoner in a Nazi concentration camp, was called upon to offer absolution to a dying member of the SS.

The Sunflower

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Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Social Studies

Juvenile Justice

Ruth Schultz

Howard Zinn

Bud Schultz

David Cole

Book looks like it’s hardly been used. 52fvvq￼

Massachusetts

Voices in the Struggle for Constitutional Rights Past and Present

Freedom of expression and freedom of association, two fundamental rights in any democracy, have often been denied to those whose beliefs challenge the status quo. In this book, there are more than 90 stirring portraits and first-person accounts of people targeted for speaking out against government policies and actions. At a time when constitutional rights have become one of the most hotly debated issues in the United States, We will be heard reveals the remarkable tenacity of individuals who refused to be silenced.

We Will Be Heard

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Linda R. Monk

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Ex-library. Catalog markers. Some shelf wear on the jacket. Small slice on the rear jacket. Pages in great shape. Low mileage. Crisp and clean. Sharp animation. No dog ears or scribbles. Please see photos for reference.

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

The Bill of Rights: A Users Guide

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Jeffrey Hummel

John Majewski

Texas

A History of the American Civil War

Combines a sweeping narrative history of the Civil War with a bold new look at the war's significance for American society. Professor Hummel sees the Civil War as America's turning point: simultaneously the culmination and repudiation of the American revolution. A unique feature of the book is the bibliographical essays which follow every chapter. Here the author surveys the literature and points out where his own interpretation fits into the continuing clash of viewpoints which informs historical debate on the Civil War.

Emancipating Slaves, Enslaving Free Men

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Retired school classroom book. Previous owner’s information has been blackened out on the inside of the front cover. Interior pages are in excellent condition.

North Carolina

Eleanor Roosevelt

A Picture Book of

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New York

California

Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

A Long Way Gone

Fawzia Koofi

Nadene Ghouri

Dust jacket has edge fraying, binding tight

Kansas

The Favored Daughter: One Woman's Fight to Lead Afghanistan into the Future

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Erin Geiger Smith

Washington

The Maddening, Enlightening, Inspiring Truth about Voting in America

In this concise, lively look at the past, present, and future of voting, a journalist examines the long and continuing fight for voting equality, why so few Americans today vote, and innovative ways to educate and motivate them; included are checklists of what to do before election day to prepare to vote and encourage others.



Voting is a prized American right and a topic of debate from the earliest days of the country. Yet in the 2016 presidential election, about 40 percent of Americans--and half of the country's young adults--didn't vote. Why do so many Americans choose not to vote, and what can we do about it? 

The problem, Erin Geiger Smith contends, is a lack of understanding about our electoral system and a need to make voting more accessible. Thank You for Voting is her eye-opening look at the voting process, starting with the Framers' perspective, through the Equal Protection amendment and the Voting Rights Act, to the present and simple actions individuals can take to increase civic participation in local, state, and national elections.

Geiger Smith expands our knowledge about our democracy--including women's long fight to win the vote, attempts to suppress newly enfranchised voters' impact, state prohibitions against felons voting, charges of voter fraud and voter suppression, and other vital issues. In a conversational tone, she explains topics that can confuse even the most informed voters: polling, news literacy, gerrymandering and the Electoral College. She also explores how age, race, and socioeconomic factors influence turnout.

Ultimately, Thank You for Voting offers hope. Geiger Smith challenges corporations to promote voting, and offers examples of how companies like Patagonia and Walmart have taken up the task in a non-partisan way. And she reveals how get-out-the-vote movements--such as television star Yara Shahidi's voting organization, Michelle Obama's When We All Vote campaign, and on-the-ground young activists--innovatively use technology and grassroots techniques to energize first-time voters. 



Thank You for Voting

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Isabel Allende

Florida

A Novel

New York Times and worldwide bestselling author Isabel Allende returns with a sweeping novel that journeys from present-day Brooklyn to Guatemala in the recent past to 1970s Chile and Brazil. An instant New York Times bestseller, In the Midst of Winter is about three very different people who are brought together in a mesmerizing story that offers “a timely message about immigration and the meaning of home” (People). During the biggest Brooklyn snowstorm in living memory, Richard Bowmaster, a lonely university professor in his sixties, hits the car of Evelyn Ortega, a young undocumented immigrant from Guatemala, and what at first seems an inconvenience takes a more serious turn when Evelyn comes to his house, seeking help. At a loss, the professor asks his tenant, Lucia Maraz, a fellow academic from Chile, for her advice. As these three lives intertwine, each will discover truths about how they have been shaped by the tragedies they witnessed, and Richard and Lucia will find unexpected, long overdue love. Allende returns here to themes that have propelled some of her finest work: political injustice, the art of survival, and the essential nature of—and our need for—love.

In the Midst of Winter

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Tennessee

The True Story of a Chinese Christian's Fight for Freedom

Tens of millions of Christians live in China today, many of them leading double lives or in hiding from a government that relentlessly persecutes them. Bob Fu, whom the Wall Street Journal called "The pastor of China's underground railroad," is fighting to protect his fellow believers from persecution, imprisonment, and even death. God's Double Agent is his fascinating and riveting story. Bob Fu is indeed God's double agent. By day Fu worked as a full-time lecturer in a communist school; by night he pastored a house church and led an underground Bible school. This can't-put-it-down book chronicles Fu's conversion to Christianity, his arrest and imprisonment for starting an illegal house church, his harrowing escape, and his subsequent rise to prominence in the United States as an advocate for his brethren. God's Double Agent will inspire readers even as it challenges them to boldly proclaim and live out their faith in a world that is at times indifferent, and at other times murderously hostile, to those who spread the gospel.

God's Double Agent

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Gulbahar Haitiwaji

Rozenn Morgat

Edward Gauvin

A Uyghur Woman's Story

The first memoir about the "reeducation" camps by a Uyghur woman.
 
"I have written what I lived. The atrocious reality."
-- Gulbahar Haitiwaji to Paris Match

Since 2017, more than one million Uyghurs have been deported from their homes in the Xinjiang region of China to "reeducation camps." The brutal repression of the Uyghurs, a Turkish-speaking Muslim ethnic group, has been denounced as genocide, and reported widely in media around the world. The Xinjiang Papers, revealed by the New York Times in 2019, expose the brutal repression of the Uyghur ethnicity by means of forced mass detention­--the biggest since the time of Mao.
 
Her name is Gulbahar Haitiwaji and she is the first Uyghur woman to write a memoir about the 'reeducation' camps. For three years Haitiwaji endured hundreds of hours of interrogations, torture, hunger, police violence, brainwashing, forced sterilization, freezing cold, and nights under blinding neon light in her prison cell.
 
These camps are to China what the Gulags were to the USSR. The Chinese government denies that they are concentration camps, seeking to legitimize their existence in the name of the "total fight against Islamic terrorism, infiltration and separatism," and calls them "schools." But none of this is true. Gulbahar only escaped thanks to the relentless efforts of her daughter. Her courageous memoir is a terrifying portrait of the atrocities she endured in the Chinese gulag and how the treatment of the Uyghurs at the hands of the Chinese government is just the latest example of their oppression of independent minorities within Chinese borders.
 
The Xinjiang region where the Uyghurs live is where the Chinese government wishes there to be a new "silk route," connecting Asia to Europe, considered to be the most important political project of president Xi Jinping.

How I Survived a Chinese Reeducation Camp

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Craig Winston LeCroy

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Smoke free home, will pack with care!


Maryland

Life Stories

The Call to Social Work is based on a simple question: What can we learn by listening to the stories about the work of the social worker? The result is a collection of passionate stories told in vivid detail about social workers' efforts to contribute to compassion and justice in the world, to pursue social transformations, and to provide a vision for a better way of living.

The Call to Social Work

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The last page of this copy is creased; otherwise, it’s like new.

Nathan Sharansky

Light shelf wear on the jacket. Subtle. Pages in great shape w/ low mileage. Crisp and clean. Sharp photography. Please see photos for reference.

Temperamentally and intellectually, Natan Sharanskey is a man very much like many of us -- which makes this account of his arrest on political grounds, his trial, and ten years' imprisonment in the Orwellian universe of the Soviet gulag particularly vivid and resonant.

Fear No Evil

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Amitai Etzioni

Connecticut

Arguing that America is far more socially "monochromatic" than the rhetoric of diversity recognizes, the author discusses the core values shared by most Americans, despite race, religion, or background.

The Monochrome Society

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Pashtana Durrani

Tamara Bralo

Last To Eat, Last To Learn: My Life In Afghanistan Fighting To Educate Women by Pashtama Durrani
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Genre: Human Rights

Inspired by generations of her family’s unwavering belief in the power of education, Pashtana Durrani recognized her calling early in life: to educate Afghanistan’s girls and young women, raised in a society where learning is forbidden. In a country devastated by war and violence, where girls are often married off before reaching their teenage years and prohibited from leaving their homes, heeding that call seemed both impossible and dangerous.

Pashtana was raised in an Afghan refugee camp in Pakistan where her father, a tribal leader, founded a community school for girls within their home. Fueled by his insistence that despite being a girl, she mattered and deserved an education, Pashtana was sixteen when, against impossible odds, she was granted a path out of the refugee camp: admittance to a preparatory program at Oxford. Unthinkably and to her parents’ horror, she chose a different path. She chose Afghanistan.

Pashtana founded the nonprofit LEARN and developed a program for getting educational materials directly into the hands of girls in remote areas of the country, training teachers in digital literacy. Her commitment to education has made her a target of the Taliban. Still, she continues to fight for women’s education and autonomy in Afghanistan and beyond.

Courageous and inspiring, Last to Eat, Last to Learn is the story of how just one person can transform a family, a tribe, a country. It reminds us of the emancipatory power of learning and the transformational potential that lies within each of us.

Fire

My Life in Afghanistan Fighting to Educate Women

From young Afghani activist and Amnesty International Global Youth Ambassador Pashtana Durrani, a deeply inspiring memoir about the power of learning and the value of educators in their many forms - from teachers, mentors, and role models, to fathers, mothers, and any one of us with the drive to stand against ignorance...

A Ms. Magazine Pick for Most Anticipated Feminist Books of 2023

"Pashtana's story highlights the resourcefulness and bravery of young women in Afghanistan. I hope readers will be inspired by her mission to give every girl the education she deserves and the opportunity to pursue her dreams."--Malala Yousafzai

Inspired by generations of her family's unwavering belief in the power of education, Pashtana Durrani recognized her calling early in life: to educate Afghanistan's girls and young women, raised in a society where learning is forbidden. In a country devastated by war and violence, where girls are often married off before reaching their teenage years and prohibited from leaving their homes, heeding that call seemed both impossible and dangerous.

Pashtana was raised in an Afghan refugee camp in Pakistan where her father, a tribal leader, founded a community school for girls within their home. Fueled by his insistence that despite being a girl, she mattered and deserved an education, Pashtana was sixteen when, against impossible odds, she was granted a path out of the refugee camp: admittance to a preparatory program at Oxford. Unthinkably and to her parents' horror, she chose a different path. She chose Afghanistan.

Pashtana founded the nonprofit LEARN and developed a program for getting educational materials directly into the hands of girls in remote areas of the country, training teachers in digital literacy. Her commitment to education has made her a target of the Taliban. Still, she continues to fight for women's education and autonomy in Afghanistan and beyond.

Courageous and inspiring, Last to Eat, Last to Learn is the story of how just one person can transform a family, a tribe, a country. It reminds us of the emancipatory power of learning and the transformational potential that lies within each of us.

A portion of proceeds from Last to Eat, Last to Learn will be donated to LEARN (LearnAfghan.org), the NGO dedicated to providing quality education and healthcare to communities in conflict zones.

Last to Eat, Last to Learn

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Joshua E. S. Phillips

This was a former library book but in relatively excellent condition. See photos.

Arizona

American Soldiers and Torture

The legacy of torture in the âeoeWar on Terror,âe told through the story of one tank battalion.

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Jeffrey Hummel; John Majewski

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Fawzia Koofi

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Thank You for Voting

Isabel Allende

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Bob Fu; Nancy French

God's Double Agent

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Craig Winston LeCroy

The Call to Social Work

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In the Midst of Winter

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