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In this masterful, groundbreaking work, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Heather Ann Thompson shines surprising new light on an infamous 1984 New York subway shooting that would unveil simmering racial resentments and would lead, in unexpected ways, to a fractured future and a new era of rage and...

In Future Histories, public interest lawyer and digital specialist Lizzie O'Shea argues that we need to stop looking forward and start looking backwards. Weaving together histories of computing and progressive social movements with modern theories of the mind, society, and self, O'Shea constructs a "usable past" that can help us determine our digital future. What, she asks, can the Paris Commune tell us about earlier experiments in sharing resources - like the internet - in common?

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER “Understanding how our political system has become broken in favor of reactionary ignorance is vital for saving our democracy. David Pakman accessibly explains how we got here and offers potential solutions for confronting the ongoing...

Culture will keep you fit and healthy. Culture will bring communities together. Culture will improve your education. This is the message from governments and arts organisations across the country; however, this book explains why we need to be cautious about culture. Offering a powerful call to transform the cultural and creative industries, Culture Is Bad for You examines the intersections between race, class, and gender in the mechanisms of exclusion in cultural occupations.

For readers of Dopesick and Drug Use for Grown-Ups--a celebrated cannabis attorney's insider look at the War on Drugs and what comes next for the drug legalization movement. Spoiler: everyone uses drugs. Whether you’re popping an aspirin for a headache, pushing through the day with an extra...

America is in crisis, from the university to the workplace. Toxic ideas first spread by higher education have undermined humanistic values, fueled intolerance, and widened divisions in our larger culture. The Diversity Delusion argues that the root of this problem is the belief in America’s endemic racism and sexism, a belief that has engendered a metastasizing diversity bureaucracy in society and academia.

“Timely and important . . . It should be our North Star for the recovery and beyond.” —Hillary Clinton “Sperling makes a forceful case that only by speaking to matters of the spirit can liberals root their belief in economic justice in people’s deepest aspirations—in their sense of...

’Outstanding’ THE SECRET BARRISTER ‘It’s brilliant, it’s comprehensive, buy it’ EVENING STANDARD ‘A powerful, illuminating, enraging and inspiring read’ JESS PHILLIPS MP ‘Precise, heartfelt and anti-pompous’ THE TIMES Why is our criminal justice system so bad at protecting...

Scuola, si riparte: "Mascherine come un gioco". Il primo giorno dei bambini cancella gli incubi di Vo', di Corrado Zunino; Precari, salta l'assunzione. Le Regioni ritardano e il Ministero non li salva, di Corrado Zunino; Scuola, la tempesta perfetta, di Carlo Galli; Termometri e certificati. Le regole per i genitori con il ritorno a scuola, di Corrado Zunino; La nuova scuola ibrida e digitale che resiste al virus, di Ilvo Diamanti; Il ministro Manfredi: "Per attrarre cervelli stranieri più fondi alla ricerca", di Luca Fraioli; Scuola, che cosa non funziona, di Alessandra Ziniti.

Niente classi a metà: La ministra cambia il piano per la scuola, di Eleonora Capelli e Carmelo Lopapa; La scuola non ci sta: "Senza certezze sulla riapertura pronti a occupare", di Valeria Strambi; Azzolina sotto assedio poi il governo la soccorre. "Ma servono soldi in più", di Annalisa Cuzzocrea; A lezione da Calamandrei, di Francesco Bei; Scuola, i nostri ragazzi e la sciatteria della ministra Azzolina, di Chiara Saraceno; La scuola in terapia intensiva, di Massimo Recalcati.