"During their senior year of college, Shay Evans and her best friend Laurel escaped from a violent, magnetic man and his equally violent views about women and society. Eight years later, Shay has built a new life for herself. But the horrifying news of Laurel's death shatters her world and makes her suspect that the people from her past are back and more dangerous than ever. Recruiting the help of a true-crime podcast host, Shay is determined to find...

Adapted from the critically acclaimed chronicle of U.S. history, a study of American expansionism around the world is told from a grassroots perspective and provides an analysis of important events from Wounded Knee to Iraq.

South Africa is the country with the highest number of HIV+ people in the world. "State of Denial" puts a human face on the millions affected by introducing us to six South Africans involved with the AIDS epidemic. By the year 2000, an estimated 4.2 million people in South Africa were infected with HIV; if present trends continue by 2010, 7 million will have died of the disease. State of Denial puts a human face behind the numbers by introducing us...

"A clear, expert, and inspiring guide to social change, based on case studies of grassroots movements that won, from two leading community and labor experts"--

Presents a collection of seventeen essays that explore what being an ally is, needing an ally, and showing up for friends and strangers.

"From the prophetic author of the now-classic What's the Matter with Kansas? and Listen, Liberal, an eye-opening account of populism, the most important-and misunderstood-movement of our time. Rarely does a work of history contain startling implications for the present, but in The People, No Thomas Frank pulls off that explosive effect by showing us that everything we think we know about populism is wrong. Today "populism" is seen as a frightening...

Que el privilegio no te nuble la empat?a fue una frase que se volvi? viral en redes sociales, salt? a pancartas y camisetas, e hizo clic con muchas personas porque puso en escena conceptos, temas e ideas que son el motor de las marchas y protestas que han sacudido a Colombia y a varios pa?ses latinoamericanos desde el a?o pasado. Ita Mar?a la escribi? en sus redes sociales en 2018 y la convirti? en la bandera de su transformaci?n personal, que la...

"This is a book about how global movements build power with Internet memes"-- "Memes are the street art of the internet and the newest tool shaping political contention today. Between authoritarians and activists, between propagandists and journalists, memes are now essential to modern media. Using social media-driven movements as her guide, technologist and digital media scholar An Xiao Mina goes on a global exploration of internet memes as agents...

"In the midst of a historic "birth dearth," why do some 5 percent of American women choose to defy the demographic norm by bearing five or more children? Hannah's Children is a compelling portrait of these overlooked but fascinating mothers who, like the biblical Hannah, see their children as their purpose, their contribution, and their greatest blessing"--

"In this spiky and hilarious 21st century reboot of the iconic film Taxi Driver, a ride share driver is barely holding it together on the hunt for love, dignity and a living wage . . . until she decides she's done waiting. Damani is tired. Her father just passed away and now she lives paycheck to paycheck in the basement of her parents' old house, caring for her mom, and driving for an app to (not even) pay the bills. Protests are all the rage--everybody's...