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Weathering: The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society by Publication Date: 2023Fusing science and social justice, renowned public health researcher Dr. Arline T. Geronimus offers an urgent, "monumental" book exploring the ways in which systemic injustice erodes the health of marginalized people.
Hate in the Homeland by Publication Date: 2022A startling look at the unexpected places where violent hate groups recruit young people.
Defund Fear by Publication Date: 2021A groundbreaking new vision for public safety that overturns more than 200 years of fear-based discrimination, othering, and punishment.
How to Be an Antiracist by Publication Date: 2019Antiracism is a transformative concept that reorients and reenergizes the conversation about racism--and, even more fundamentally, points us toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves and each other.
Another Day in the Death of America by Publication Date: 2016This powerful and moving work puts a human face-a child's face-on the "collateral damage" of gun deaths across the country. This is not a book about gun control, but about what happens in a country where it does not exist.
The Book of Joy by Publication Date: 2016Nobel Peace Prize Laureates His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu have survived more than fifty years of exile and the soul-crushing violence of oppression. Despite their hardships--or, as they would say, because of them--they are two of the most joyful people on the planet.
Marbles by Publication Date: 2012Cartoonist Ellen Forney explores the relationship between "crazy" and "creative" in this graphic memoir of her bipolar disorder, woven with stories of famous bipolar artists and writers.
