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Animal Farm
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The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
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A New Society: Reflections for Today's World
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A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present
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Beyond Good and Evil
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The Souls of Black Folk
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Women, Race & Class
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Capital: A Critique of Political Economy Volume 1
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The Black Panthers Speak
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Philip S. Foner (Editor)
4.40 avg rating — 749 ratings
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Power at Play: Sports and the Problem of Masculinity
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Michael A. Messner (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Killing Hope: U.S. Military and C.I.A. Interventions Since World War II
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William Blum (Goodreads Author)
4.26 avg rating — 2,035 ratings
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The State and Revolution
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The Anarchist Cookbook
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Subliminal Seduction
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The Quiet American
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Ghost of Chance
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Go Tell It on the Mountain
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Giovanni’s Room
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin
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Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women
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Basta!: Land And The Zapatista Rebellion In Chiapas
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Ideas and Opinions
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Censored 1996: The 1996 Project Censored Yearbook
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Carl Jensen (Editor)
4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
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Live from Death Row
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The Fire Last Time: 1968 and After
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4.38 avg rating — 87 ratings
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50 Ways to Fight Censorship: And Important Facts to Know About the Censors
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3.71 avg rating — 34 ratings
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What Uncle Sam Really Wants
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4.02 avg rating — 2,621 ratings
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East Los Angeles: History of a Barrio
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3.31 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals
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3.74 avg rating — 8,561 ratings
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The Chomsky Reader
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The Wretched of the Earth
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What is Anarchism?
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3.93 avg rating — 1,621 ratings
score: 141,
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Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson
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4.27 avg rating — 3,889 ratings
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Fidel & Religion: Conversations with Frei Betto on Marxism & Liberation Theology
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4.10 avg rating — 251 ratings
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Walden and Civil Disobedience
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3.93 avg rating — 38,876 ratings
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The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations
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3.96 avg rating — 4,269 ratings
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Kwame Nkrumah: The Conakry Years: His Life and Letters
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3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Soul on Ice
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3.97 avg rating — 14,704 ratings
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Revolutionary Suicide
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4.49 avg rating — 6,952 ratings
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The Grapes of Wrath
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Tropic of Cancer (Tropic, #1)
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3.66 avg rating — 77,455 ratings
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Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
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4.24 avg rating — 23,852 ratings
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First World, Ha, Ha, Ha!
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Elaine Katzenberger (editor)
4.01 avg rating — 151 ratings
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Rebellion from the Roots: Indian Uprising in Chiapas
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This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color
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Cherríe L. Moraga (Editor)
4.52 avg rating — 9,744 ratings
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Storytellers at the Columbia River
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Nancy Danielson Mendenhall (Goodreads Author)
4.06 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Flight of the Goose: A Story of the Far North
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Lesley Thomas (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 152 ratings
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Black Boy
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4.09 avg rating — 55,694 ratings
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90 Years of Ford (Crestline Series)
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Steal This Book
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War and an Irish Town
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4.11 avg rating — 328 ratings
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Always a Rebel: Ricardo Flores Magón and the Mexican Revolution
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4.07 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Interview with Chairman Gonzalo: Interview with the Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Peru
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4.36 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Odes to Opposites
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The Dust Rose Like Smoke: The Subjugation of the Zulu and the Sioux
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God Dies by the Nile
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The Confessions of Nat Turner
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You Can't Win
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4.33 avg rating — 4,786 ratings
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O Pioneers!
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Eros and Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud
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3.90 avg rating — 3,745 ratings
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The Way Things Aren't: Rush Limbaugh's Reign of Error
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3.47 avg rating — 55 ratings
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Year 501: The Conquest Continues
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4.15 avg rating — 741 ratings
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Rights of Man
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4.02 avg rating — 10,389 ratings
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Deterring Democracy
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The Bluest Eye
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"Mau Mau" detainee: The account by a Kenya African of his experiences in detention camps, 1953-1960
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3.81 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Salvador
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In the Spirit of Crazy Horse: The Story of Leonard Peltier and the FBI's War on the American Indian Movement
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4.23 avg rating — 4,308 ratings
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Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools
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Marx's Kapital for Beginners
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How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York
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Song of Solomon
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The Weatherman
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American Slavery, American Freedom
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U.S.A.: The 42nd Parallel / 1919 / The Big Money
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America’s Reconstruction: People and Politics After the Civil War
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The Naked and the Dead
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Parting the Waters: Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement 1954-63
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4.36 avg rating — 10,022 ratings
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My Ántonia
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Camus at Combat: Writing 1944-1947
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Native Son
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Slouching Towards Bethlehem
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Dispatches
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Gypsys Curse
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The State of Native America: Genocide, Colonization, and Resistance
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M. Annette Jaimes (Editor)
4.08 avg rating — 63 ratings
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The Emperor Wears No Clothes: The Authoritative Historical Record of Cannabis and the Conspiracy Against Marijuana
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SNCC: The New Abolitionists (Radical 60s)
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Cheer-up Book for a Proud American
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Promissory Notes
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Joe Hill
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The Last Mau Mau Field Marshals
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The Mau Mau War in Perspective: Eastern African Studies
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Moving the Centre: The Struggle for Cultural Freedoms
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The Aesthetic Dimension: Toward a Critique of Marxist Aesthetics
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The Media Monopoly
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Hegemony and Revolution: Antonio Gramsci's Political and Cultural Theory
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The Mismeasure of Man
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The Marx-Engels Reader
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Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation
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