Political activism / Political engagement

Get inside the head of Jane Fonda: actress, political activist, environmentalist, philanthropist, and creator of an unlikely fitness empire that captivated the country beginning in the 1980s.This collection of quotes has been curated from Jane Fonda's...

Age range 13 to 18Get inside the head of Michelle Obama: author, lawyer, humanitarian, and the trailblazing first Black woman to serve as the First Lady of the United States. This collection of quotes has been carefully curated from Michelle...

"It deserves prominent placement on LGBTQ history bookshelves. . . . An indelible collection of wise voices resonating with experience, pride, resilience, and revolution." -Kirkus starred reviewForeword by Kate Bornstein and Barbara CarrellasIn The...

In the dying light of the nineteenth century, the world came to know and fear terrorism. Much like today, this was a time of progress and dread, in which breakthroughs in communications and weapons were made, political reforms were implemented and...

Counter-Terror by Proxy sheds lights on a fascinating and intriguing case of illiberal practices in a liberal regime where Spanish State agencies colluded with mercenaries and petty criminals in order to kill members of the Basque militant group ETA and...

Passions matter to politics. Yet, much of the work on passions in politics focuses on such spectacular events as social movements, civil wars and revolutionary upheavals, but ignores electoral politics as banal. The contributors to this book trace the...

Referendums are ubiquitous; from Brexit in the United Kingdom in 2016 to same-sex marriage in Australia in 2017 Why are referendums held at all? And when they are held, why are they won or lost? Moreover, what are the consequences of having referendums?...

Thisnew edition of T. V. Reed's acclaimed work offers accounts of ten keyprogressive movements in postwar America, from the African American strugglefor civil rights beginning in the 1950s to Occupy Wall Street and Black LivesMatter in the twenty-first...

"Eve's brave and honest experiment reveals the shocking impact of the throwaway society we've become and at the same time showing small ways we can all do better." -Rebecca Prince-Ruiz, founder of Plastic Free JulyYear of No Garbage is Super Size Me...

A WALL STREET JOURNAL, USA TODAY, and PUBLISHERS WEEKLY NATIONAL BESTSELLERNEW BOOK CLAIMS DONALD TRUMP WILL RUN AND WIN IN 2024!A riveting account of the HOAX that sent a presidential campaign chairman to solitary confinement because he wouldn't turn...

Examining a phenomenon that is sweeping the country,Cancel This Book shines the spotlight on the suppression of open and candid debate.The public shaming of individuals for actual or perceived offenses, often against emerging notions of proper racial and...

Thisbook almost didn't see the light of day as government officials tried to barits publication. The inside story of the real President Trump, by his former attorneyand personal advisor - the man who helped get him into the Oval Office.Once Donald...

"Maybe the question isn't what happened to Alan Dershowitz. Maybe it's what happened to everyone else."--Politico In The Case for Liberalism in an Age of Extremism, Alan Dershowitz--New York Times bestselling author and one of America's most respected...

"This book is very tough." - President Donald Trump The Bush Crime Family smashes through the layers of lies and secrecy that have surrounded and protected our country's most successful political dynasty for nearly two centuries. New York Times...

The Shocking Reexamination of Unexplored Failures by Government Officials to Use Available Intelligence to Stop the Events of September 11thIn 2009, documentarians John Duffy and Ray Nowosielski arrived at the offices of Richard Clarke, the former...

In the spirit of Night by Elie Wiesel, Die Walking is the memoir of a Rwandan boy escaping genocide.In 1994, Obadiah was the thirteen-year-old son of a Hutu pastor dreaming of becoming an airplane pilot when he heard something was wrong in Kigali, Rwanda...

A commemoration of the 20th anniversary of 9/11as told through stories and photographs from The Associated Press - covering everything from the events of that tragic day to the rebuilding of the World Trade Center and beyond.This important and...

A bullet train of a book, fast-paced, hilarious, rich with action. A harbinger of good things to come in mysterious ways.It all began at a cocktail party at Wallace Stegner's for the Stanford writing class of 1958. Ken Kesey and Ken Babbs became cronies,...

With twenty-eight speeches spanning the Reagan era, The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan provides readers with a direct source into President Reagan's profound belief in God, freedom, individualism, limited government, and his great love for his...

From poisoned water and police violence in our cities, to gun massacres and hate-mongering on the presidential campaign trail, evidence that America is at war with itself is everywhere around us. The question is not whether or not it's happening, but how...