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Stay Solid!
A Radical Handbook for Youth
$20.00This scrapbook-style collection of essays, excerpts, explanations, and images pushes back against a culture that relentlessly demands that kids give up their best ideals, abandon their hopes,...
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Breaking Through Concrete
Building An Urban Farm Revival
$29.95People have always grown food in urban spaces—on windowsills and sidewalks, and in backyards and neighborhood parks—but today, urban farmers are leading an environmental and social movement that...
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Weighing In
Obesity, Food Justice, and the Limits of Capitalism
$26.95Weighing In takes on the "obesity epidemic," challenging many widely held assumptions about its causes and consequences. Julie Guthman examines fatness and its relationship to health...
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The Monster Within
The Hidden Side of Motherhood
$21.95Mixed feelings about motherhood—uncertainty over having a child, fears of pregnancy and childbirth, or negative thoughts about one's own children—are not just hard to discuss, they are a powerful...
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A Plague of Prisons
The Epidemiology of Mass Incarceration in America
$26.95When Dr. John Snow first traced an outbreak of cholera to a water pump in the Soho district of London in 1854, the field of epidemiology was born. Taking the same public health approaches and tools...
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In Our Control
The Complete Guide to Contraceptive Choices for Women
$21.95The efficacy and risks of different birth control options are dramatically different today from what they once were thanks to scientific advances and increased awareness of STDs and other factors....
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The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved
Inside America's Underground Food Movements
$20.00In The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved, author Sandor Ellix Katz profiles grassroots activists who are taking on Big Food, creating meaningful alternatives, and challenging the way many...
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The Monster at Our Door
The Global Threat of Avian Flu
$21.95Avian influenza is a viral asteroid on a collision course with humanity. In 1918, a pandemic strain of influenza killed at least 40 million people in three months. The World Health Organization...
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SPK
Turn Illness into a Weapon
$25.00Startling book on the SPK, (Sozialistisches Patienten Kollektiv), including theses and principles, chronology of events, essays and an introduction by Jean-Paul Sartre. The first English...
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