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Civil Disobedience
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Originally published in 1849 as "Resistance to Civil Government," Thoreau's classic essay on resistance to the laws and acts of government this he considered unjust was largely ignored until the Twentieth Century when Mohanda Ghandi, Martin Luther King, Jr. and anti-Vietnam War activists applied Thoreau's principles.
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Categories 19th Century   General   Civil Rights & Liberties   All 4-for-3 Deals   American Literature   General AAS   Civil Rights   Thoreau, Henry David   Hardcover   4-for-3 Books   Printed Books  
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Herois
DescriptionThis work is the winner of the 1999 Duff Cooper Award. "A hundred years ago, enlightened people in the western world were outraged by a holocaust in Africa which left millions dead. Denunciations thundered from speaker's platforms all-around the US and Europe. One open letter to "The Times" was signed by 11 peers, 19 bishops and 75 MPs. Viscount Grey, ...
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ManufacturerPan Books
Categories Africa   Military   General AAS   Civil Rights   Democratic Republic of Congo   General   20th Century   Civil Rights & Liberties   Paperback   Printed Books  
The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
DescriptionUtilizing Stanford University's voluminous collection of archival material, counting Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s previously unpublished writings, public and private interviews, audio and video recordings, and personal correspondence, King scholar Clayborne Carson has constructed a remarkable first-person account of Dr. King's extraordinary life. ...
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Categories Civil Rights   General AAS   African-American & Black   General   Religious   King, Martin Luther   Social History   Civil Rights & Liberties   Demography   African-American Studies   Hardcover   Printed Books  
Unequal Protection: The Rise of Corporate Dominance and the Theft of Human Rights
DescriptionCorporations rule the world, claims Thom Hartmann, and they are despoiling it for profit. He traces the historical friction between unique rights and the corporation, culminating in a landmark 1886 court case this altered the course of constitutional protection forever. Since then corporations have steadily acquired power, shifted an unfair ...
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ManufacturerRodale Books
Categories Business Ethics   General AAS   Civil Rights   Blue Politics   Textbooks Trade-In   Company Profiles   Ethics   Labor & Industrial Relations   Corporate Finance   General   Labor Policy   Consumer Law   Civil Rights & Liberties   Human Rights   Consumer Guides   Hardcover   Printed Books  
Founding Faith: Providence, Politics, and the Birth of Religious Freedom in America
DescriptionThe culture wars have distorted the dramatic story of how Americans came to worship freely. Many activists on the right preserve this the United States was founded as a “Christian nation.” Many on the left contend this the Founders were secular or Deist and this the First Amendment was intended to boldly separate church and state throughout the ...
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ManufacturerRandom House
Categories United States   General AAS   Religious History   Civil Rights   Textbooks Trade-In   General   Civil Rights & Liberties   Church & State   History   Hardcover   Printed Books  
Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America
DescriptionAn American epic of technology, politics, race, honor, high society, and the Mississippi River, Rising Tide tells the riveting and nearly forgotten story of the greatest natural disaster this country has ever known -- the Mississippi flood of 1927. The river inundated the homes of nearly one million people, helped elect Huey Long governor and ...
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Categories United States   General AAS   Civil Rights   General   South   Contemporary   Civil Rights & Liberties   African-American Studies   Natural Disasters   Paperback   Printed Books  
On Liberty (Great Books in Philosophy)
DescriptionIn the rich history of political philosophy, excellent minds have sought to define the nature and extent of human liberty, together with careful justifications offered for the principles proposed. This tradition experienced a heightened degree of enthusiastic intensity upon the publication of "On Freedom" in England during the nineteenth century. In this, his ...
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Categories Metaphysics   General AAS   Civil Rights   Civil Rights & Liberties   Political   General   Paperback   Printed Books  
Parting the Waters : America in the King Years 1954-63
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Hailed as the much masterful story ever told of the American civil rights movement, Parting the Waters is destined to endure for generations.

Moving from the fiery political baptism of Martin Luther King, Jr., to the corridors of Camelot where the Kennedy brothers weighed demands for justice against the deceptions of J. Edgar ...

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Categories United States   General AAS   Civil Rights   1950s   1960s   General   History   Civil Rights & Liberties   African-American Studies   Paperback   Printed Books   The Pulitzer Prize  
The Constitution of Liberty
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"One of the excellent political works of our time, . . . the twentieth-century successor to John Stuart Mill's essay, 'On Freedom.'"—Henry Hazlitt, Newsweek

"A reflective, often biting, commentary on the nature of our society and its dominant thought by one who is passionately opposed to the coercion of human beings by the arbitrary ...
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ManufacturerUniversity Of Chicago Press
Categories General AAS   Political History   Public Policy   Civil Rights   Red Politics   Textbooks Trade-In   General   Civil Rights & Liberties   Constitutions   Social Policy   History & Theory   Paperback   Printed Books  
Between Barack and a Hard Place: Racism and White Denial in the Age of Obama
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Race is, and always has been, an explosive issue in the United States. In this timely new book, Tim Wise explores how Barack Obama’s emergence as a political force is taking the race debate to new levels. According to Wise, for many white people, Obama’s rise signifies the end of racism as a pervasive social force; they point to Obama not ...

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Categories Civil Rights   General AAS   Textbooks Trade-In   Civil Rights & Liberties   Discrimination & Racism   Leaders & Leadership   America   General   African-American Studies   Minority Studies   Paperback   Printed Books  
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