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Having "bombed the suburbs," Upski is now tearing down prison walls, both the walls of the concrete monsters popping up like mushrooms across the country and the other institutions which surround us. On urban life, home-schooling, Hip-Hop leadership, and much more.

Reinhold Niebuhr
- The Nature and Destiny of Man
- Prentice Hall, 1964
- Paperback
- $ 35.95  

With the thoroughly researched and passionately drawn Malcolm X, Helfer and award-winning artist Randy DuBurke capture Malcolm Little’s extraordinary transformation from a black youth beaten down by Jim Crow America into Malcolm X, the charismatic, controversial, and doomed national spokesman for the Nation of Islam.

- Marcel Proust
- Translated by  C.K.Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin
- Vintage Publishers, 1982
- Paperback
- $30.48

• Alasdair MacIntyre
• University of Notre Dame Press; 2007
• Paperback; 312 pages
• 978-0-268-03504-4

When After Virtue first appeared

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As they received their medals, each man raised a black-gloved fist, creating an image that will always stand as an iconic representation of the complicated conflations of race, politics, and sports. In this, his autobiography, Smith fills out the story around that moment--how it came to be and where it led him.

Beverly Bell, an activist and an expert on Haitian social movements, brings together thirty-eight oral histories from a diverse group of Haitian women. The interviewees include, for example, a former prime minister, an illiterate poet, a leading feminist theologian, and a vodou dancer. Defying victim status despite gender- and state-based repression, they tell how Haiti's poor and dispossessed women have fought for their personal and collective survival.

How an unlikely coalition of parliamentarians, peace activists, former diplomats, experts and ordinary citizens were able to stop Canadian participation in missile defence.

In 2005, Peruvian activist Hilaria Supa Huamán was one of 1000 women from around the world nominated in the 1000 Women for the Nobel Peace Prize campaign. She was elected Congresswoman in Peru for 2006–11.

The Nature and Destiny of Man
- Volume 2, Human Destiny
- Reinhold Niebuhr
- Prentice Hall, 1964  

When Goat offers to do the grocery shopping, Donkey knows that things might just get a little muddled! He writes out a list so that Goat will know exactly what to buy. But the market is such a dazzling place and Goat sees so many lovely things. Instead of apples, carrots, cabbages and ice cream, Goat buys a sun hat, an inflatable octopus, a trumpet and a pair of sunglasses decorated with strawberries! What ever will Donkey make of all the surprises that Goat has in his basket when he trots triumphantly back home? Goodness knows!

• Marc Bloch
• Vintage; 1964
• Paperback; 224 pages
• 9780394705125

- John S. Oyer and Robert S. Kreider
- Good Books, 2003
- Paperback
- $ 9.95

First published in London in 1848, the Communist Manifesto is one of the most important books of all time: a document which helped to define the emerging socialist movement, altered the course of world history, and is universally acknowledged to be a cornerstone of modern social thought.

The punk movement has permanently altered youth culture. Today's art, politics, and aesthetics wouldn't be the same without the hundreds of thousands of young people who have embraced punk over the last 30-odd years. What does each of these recruits have in common? They all remember their first time. Hear what it was like straight from the fanatics.

The Gruesome Acts of Capitalism is a catalog of corporate horrors—poverty, exploitation, and injustice— as well as a damning indictment of capitalism created with both love and rage.

Michael Taussig
- Routledge, 1993
- Paperback
- $50.95

Fermenting Revolution delivers an empowering message about how individuals can change the world through the simple act of having a beer. It is also the first book to view all of the important trends in human history as fundamentally revolving around beer.

• Antonio Gramsci
• Edited by Frank Rosengarten
• Columbia University Press; 1992
• Hardcover; 805 pages
• 978-0-231-07558-9