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A Witness to Genocide, by Roy Gutman.
The 1993 Pulitzer Prize-Winning Dispatches on the “Ethnic Cleansing” in
Bosnia. With photographs by Andree Kaiser.
180 pages
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As Nature Made Him, by John Colapinto, read
by Howard McGillin. The story of David Reimer who's botched circumcision
as a baby resulted in him living the first 14 years of his life as a girl.
Yet at age 14, he makes the decision to live life as a male. David's early
life was used as the example that gender identity was based on physical biology/nurture,
whereas Reimer's decision to reject Dr John Money's insistence that he "conveniently"
become female has been embraced by the trans-community as an example of individual
gender freedom being more important than theories from the "experts".
AUDIO BOOK
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Allies for Freedom/Blacks on John Brown
, by Benjamin Quarles. Two books combined into one, the first is a
biography of John Brown, who engaged in armed struggle to end slavery
in the United States. The second is a compilation of writings on Brown
by Black writers, from 1858 to 1972.
244 and 164 pages
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Body Toxic, an environmental memoir,
by Susanne Antonetta. The author reveals how the polluted landscape of
her childhood has led to her developing cysts on her ovaries, a divided
uterus, endometriosis, rampant thyroid tumors, a quadruplet pregnancy
(no fertility drugs involved) that ended in miscarriage, and manic-depressive
illness treated with the wrong drugs until she was in her 30s.
ISBN 1582432090
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Breaking the Walls of Silence, AIDS and
Women in a New York State Maximum-Security Prison, by the AIDS Counseling
and Education Programme. In New York State in the 1980s, one in five women
entering prison was infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Those
pegged as carriers were ostracized by others fearful that the deadly disease
could spread in any number of ways in close quarters. At the maximum-security
prison Bedford Hills, a group of women banded together with the support
of their superintendent to launch a peer-counseling and education program
called ACE. This is their story. (Interesting to note that both Judy Clark
and Kathy Boudin were involved in this project.)
Hardcover 336 pages
ISBN 0879515007
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Cigarette Confidential, by John Fahs.
An investigative journalist cuts through the haze of propaganda—and reveals
the real story behind one of the most addictive and deadliest substances
known to mankind. This is a high-speed chase down Tobacco Road that does
for cigarettes what Beyond Beef did for the meat industry and Sugar Blues
did for sugar.
304 pages (December 1996)
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The Children's Rights Movement in the United
States: A History of Advocacy and Protection, by
169 pages
ISBN 0805797483
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Cry Bloody Murder, a Tale of Tainted Blood
, by Elaine Deprince. A look at the politics and economics of the
blood products industry and how this led to the HIV-tainted blood disaster.
The author lost two children to AIDS as a result of this, and the book
is interspersed with her own family’s experience.
ISBN 0679456767
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Denying the Holocaust, by Deborah Lipstadt.
A history of Holocaust denial, naming the players, the organizations,
the connections with the far right. Written ten years ago. Unfortunately
the author limits her study to the Nazi genocide, and does not deal with
other genocides.
278 pages
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Fast Food Nation, by Eric Schlosser. Shows how fast food
has hastened the malling of the landscape, widened the chasm between
rich and poor, fueled an epidemic of obesity and propelled American cultural
imperialism abroad.
383 pages
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Fighting Faiths: The Abrams Case, The Supreme
Court, And Free Speech, by Richard Polenberg. Jacob Abrams et al.
v. United States is the landmark Supreme Court case in the definition of
free speech. This book traces the Jewish immigrant experience, the lives
of the convicted anarchists before and after the trials, the careers of
the major players in the court cases—including the young J. Edgar Hoover—and
the effects of this important case on present-day First Amendment rights.
431 pages
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The French National Front, by Harvey
G. Simmons. Haven’t read this book – seems to be written by a liberal.
The dustjacket says “Led by the charismatic Jean-Marie Le Pen, the French
National Front is the most influential and sophisticated of the extreme-right
political parties in Europe. This clear and comprehensive study traces
the meteoric rise of a party that rejects the extremist label, yet harbors
strands of antisemitism, racism, and hostility to democracy that call into
question its claim to moderation. Simmons concludes that the Front is not
a party like any other, but a major threat to French democracy.”
285 pages
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Inside Rikers: Stories from the World’s
Largest Penal Colony, by Jennifer Wynn. The first look inside notorious
Riker’s Island Penitentiary, the world’s largest penal colony. Written
by a prison-reform social worker and educator, the former Managing Editor
of Prison Life magazine, with exclusive access to Riker’s for the past
five years.
Hardcover 256 pages
ISBN 0312261799
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Meena, Heroine of Afghanistan, by Melody
Ermachild Chavis with foreword by Alice Walker. A slightly hagiographical
biography of Meena, founder and martyr of the Revolutionary Association of
the Women of Afghanistan, who have opposed the Taliban, the United States
invasion and the current mosaic of warlords, fundamentalists and gangsters
in power in Afghanistan.
Hardcover, 208 pages
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The Nazi Persecution of the Gypsies, by
Guenter Lewy. The most comprehensive and accurate English-language examination
of the Nazi genocide against the Roma, or Gypsy people. Lewy argues that
much of the impetus behind the persecution of Gypsies did not originate with
the Nazi leadership, but rather with the grassroots.
Hardcover 306 pages
ISBN 0-19-512556-8
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Policing Desire: AIDS, Pornography and
the Media, by Simon Watney. A look at how the media represent both
AIDS and homosexuality, especially in the 1980s. First published in 1987,
this 1996 third edition includes an update by the author.
Softcover 172 pages
ISBN 0-8166-3025-9
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Political Policing:The United States and Latin
America, by Martha K. Huggins. A look at the legacy of US police-training
programs in Latin America - torture, death squads and political repression
of those perceived as hostile to Amerikkan designs.
Softcover 247 pages
ISBN 0-8223-2172-6
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The Puzzle Palace, by James Bradford.
Classic expose of the National Security Agency, written in 1982.
653 pages
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Shadow Man, by Melissa Scott. Winner of the
Lambda Literary Award - transgender science fiction classic about a backwater
planet which recognizes only two genders while the rest of the civilized
galaxy recognizes five (ring any bells?).
Softcover 320 pages
ISBN 0-312-86206-7
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Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton
, by Diane Wood Middlebrook. In the days before "transgender" was a word,
Billy Tipton defied the odds and lived life as a man, marrying five times
and fathering several children, despite the fact that he had been born female.
This book is valuable as one of the few biographical sources about Tipton,
but should be taken with a grain of salt as the author implausibly, and somewhat
insultingly, insists that Tipton would not have identified as a man, but
as a woman disguing herself in order to be able to make it in a man's world.
Nevertheless, i carry this title as its one of the few sources of information
about this man, who many consider a FTM pioneer.
Softcover, 326 pages, Remaindered
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Targets of Hatred: Anti-Abortion Terrorism
, by Patricia Baird-Windle and eleanor J. Bader. A history of anti-abortion
violence in Canada and the United States, as well as legislative attacks
on reproductive freedom, between 1980 and 2001.
Hardcover 396 pages
ISBN 0312239254
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Unholy Trinity, the Vatican, the Nazis and
the Swiss Banks. By Mark Aarons and John Loftus. All about how the
Vatican helped Nazi war criminals escape after the war.
432 pages
ISBN 031218199X
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Weapons of Mass Deception, by Sheldon
Rampton & John Stauber.
Softcover, 248 pages
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The World Split Open, by Ruth Rosen.
The dustjacket says: “Weaving together ten years of archival research and
interviews, Rosen turns the complicated history of the women’s movement
into a compelling and coherent narrative. Written with vigor and grace,
she has created the balanced, meticulously documented, and evocative history
that we expect from a distinguished scholar and activist. With uncompromising
integrity, The World Split Open challenges us to understand how the women’s
movement has forever altered our lives and why the revolution is far from
over. This is extraordinary achievment and long awaited history will attract
men and women, entice educators and students, beguile movement veterans,
and captivate those who came of age in the wake of this revolution.” With
nice pictures!
Softcover 480 pages
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