{"title":"History, Politics, \u0026 Power","description":"\u003cp\u003eNew and used books, with $2 of each supporting our current \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/punkforpeace.com\/pages\/causes\"\u003efeatured causes\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"black-history-is-for-everyone-by-brian-jones","title":"Brian Jones: Black History Is for Everyone","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA longtime educator explores how the study of Black history challenges our understanding of race, nation, and the stories we tell about who we are.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBlack history is under attack from powerful forces that seek to excise it from classrooms, libraries, and the popular imagination. Yet its opponents fail to understand a simple truth: the best education challenges our assumptions, helps us see larger forces at work, and gives us glimpses of alternate futures.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eBlack History Is for Everyone\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Brian Jones offers a meditation on the power of Black history, using his own experiences as a lifelong learner and classroom teacher to question everything—from the radicalism of the American Revolution to the meaning of “race” and “nation.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWith warmth and immersive storytelling, Jones encourages us to delve deeper into our collective history, explores how curiosity about our world is essential—and reminds us that with stakes so high, the effort is worth it.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the author:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBrian Jones\u003c\/strong\u003e has taught many ages and grades in New York City’s public schools and the City University of New York. He served as the inaugural director of the Center for Educators and Schools at the New York Public Library and was the associate director of education at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. The author of \u003cem\u003eThe Tuskegee Student Uprising: A History,\u003c\/em\u003e his writing has also appeared in \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eGuardian\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eJacobin\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReviews:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Amid widespread political censorship and attacks, Black History Is for Everyone pulses with love, insight, and possibility. Brian Jones shares how Black history has challenged and energized his own thinking, inviting each of us to reflect on what we learn, why we learn it, and how it shapes our understanding of the nation and our place in the world. From Bacon’s Rebellion to the Haitian Revolution, this book reveals how those who came before us resisted oppression—and reminds us that study and struggle have always gone hand in hand.\"\u003cbr\u003e—Ruha Benjamin, author of Imagination: A Manifesto\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“With searing honesty and incisive prose, Black History Is for Everyone offers a sweeping journey through more than three centuries of Black history. Brian Jones masterfully blends personal reflection with powerful storytelling, revealing the centrality of Black history to American life. Urgent, eye-opening, and deeply engaging, this is essential reading for students, educators, and anyone ready to see the past—and the present—with fresh eyes.”\u003cbr\u003e—Ashley D. Farmer, author of Queen Mother: Black Nationalism, Reparations, and the Untold Story of Audley Moore\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Black History is for Everyone is a love letter to students, a history lesson, and a critical analysis of the segregated schools—with too few Black teachers and too little Black history—that we have today. At a moment when many are shrinking from and erasing our history, Brian Jones pointedly shows us the many ways that the study of Black history enriches us all. This is the book we need to see the road forward.”\u003cbr\u003e—Jeanne Theoharis, author of King of the North: Martin Luther King Jr's Life of Struggle Outside the South\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"As Brian Jones makes clear, organized attempts to erase Black history are hardly confined to the contemporary moment. Through historicizing accounts of his own experiences as a scholar, teacher, and library worker, Jones offers a clear and compelling argument that the struggle to know who we are and where we come from is essential to the fight for our shared future.\"\u003cbr\u003e—Emily Drabinski, Associate Professor, Queens College, CUNY\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Brian Jones, one of our most insightful pedagogists, reminds us that the Black experience is so central to the American experience that no one’s education is complete without its examination. This book is required reading.\"\u003cbr\u003e—Tracie D. Hall, former Executive Director, American Library Association\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Punk For Peace","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover \/ New \/ $2 of each item","offer_id":47447287005398,"sku":null,"price":18.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0754\/3639\/2662\/files\/9798888904473.png?v=1762707585"},{"product_id":"displaced-in-gaza-stories-from-the-gaza-genocide","title":"Displaced in Gaza - Stories from the Gaza Genocide","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA powerful collection of testimonies from Palestinians facing genocide and displacement in Gaza with hope and resistance.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eDisplaced in Gaza\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e aims to raise global awareness of how violent displacement has impacted the lives of Palestinians—students, mothers, fathers, grandparents, children, educators, and those who already survived the Nakba of 1948. In Gaza, 2.3 million Palestinians have been subjected to starvation, mass destruction, and targeted killing. Yet they endure.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis book is a commitment to the longstanding Palestinian tradition of storytelling, documenting both the horror of the genocide and the resilience of the Palestinian people. The stories in this collection are not merely accounts of suffering, they are assertions of humanity, resistance, hope, and the unbreakable bond that ties Palestinians to their homeland.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eDisplaced in Gaza\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a collaboration between the American Friends Service Committee and the Hashim Sani Center for Palestine Studies at Universiti Malaya.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReviews:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“The narratives may lack the embellishments of fiction, but they do not need them: the truth on these pages is more powerful than any novel….Displaced in Gaza is a collective cry for the world to listen and a monument to a people’s undying will to survive.”\u003cbr\u003e—Middle East Eye\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“This harrowing collection of first testimonies from survivors of the Gaza Genocide—featuring voices from old and young, fathers, and mothers offers an urgent, personal perspective on the realities faced by those forcibly displaced by Israel. It should be read by all people. Read them, then read them again—you will be left wondering how the world allowed such atrocities to unfold and be motivated towards meaningful action.”\u003cbr\u003e–Laila El-Haddad, Author of Gaza Mom and The Gaza Kitchen\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“The narratives of these survivors of genocide are an affirmation of their humanity, an ode to loved martyrs, and a record with which to fight for future accountability and justice. It is an archive of enormous importance, yet one that is also lacking: there should be a testimony to each and every victim of Israeli apartheid. Every person in this collection is fighting back against the effort to make our loved ones nameless and silent, to leave their bodies unidentified beneath rubble. They are forcing us to witness, to hold their stories as a living archive against this latest act of extermination, as well as the years upon years of Nakba, of the dispossession and murder that preceded it.”\u003cbr\u003e–Tareq Baconi, president of the board of Al-Shabaka, the Palestinian Policy Network\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Displacement is not a coincidence but the outcome of a premeditated agenda. It's fundamentally a human rights issue and documenting the stories of displaced people in Gaza is an important step towards restorative justice.”\u003cbr\u003e–Nkosi Zwelivelile, grandson of Nelson Mandela\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Displacing people in Gaza has become forcibly normalized. Some Palestinians have been displaced twenty times. The stories in Displaced in Gaza are a must-read.”\u003cbr\u003e–Ahmed Abu Artema, Palestinian poet, journalist, and co-founder of the Great March of Return\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Before you can forgive, you must remember. In these testimonies, Palestinians insist on memory. We are aware how the world is ready to move past our memory as soon as the world determines we are now ‘after Gaza,’ that the genocide has stopped. But after the genocide is still a genocide. Palestinians know that we must overcome this ‘after,’ too. And so we tell our stories to honor the love in our hearts.”\u003cbr\u003e–Fady Joudah, Palestinian poet and author of The Earth in the Attic\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“These firsthand Palestinian accounts by survivors of Israel’s ethnic cleansing are chilling testaments to the devastation of displacement. Subject to genocidal violence as part of the ongoing Nakba—settler-colonial elimination—the individuals whose stories are included here are part of a crucial documentation project. This important collection is a call out to the world community to not only bear witness, but to assert our collective political will to end these atrocious war crimes.”\u003cbr\u003e—J. Kēhaulani Kauanui, author of Hawaiian Blood: Colonialism and the Politics of Sovereignty and Indigeneity\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Displaced in Gaza presents an essential collection of real-life testimonies that challenge the narratives justifying the current erasure of Gaza and its people. In the Gaza Strip, where nine in ten Palestinians have been displaced since the events of October 7—some as many as ten times—these personal accounts humanize the staggering numbers. These stories remind us of our shared responsibility to ensure that the lessons of history and the pledge of ‘never again for anyone’ apply to Palestinians, as well.”\u003cbr\u003e—Laila Mokhiber, Senior Director of Communications at UNRWA USA\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Punk For Peace","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ New \/ $2 of each item","offer_id":47447352017110,"sku":null,"price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0754\/3639\/2662\/files\/9798888905203.png?v=1762708827"},{"product_id":"after-savagery-gaza-genocide-and-the-illusion-of-western-civilization-by-hamid-dabashi-new","title":"Hamid Dabashi: After Savagery - Gaza, Genocide, and the Illusion of Western Civilization","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWritten during a genocide, \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eAfter Savagery \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ereveals the ethical bankruptcy of “Western philosophy” and how it undergirds the erasure of the colonized.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe death toll in Gaza continues to rise―a cold, lifeless number representing entire communities crushed under the weight of settler colonialism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat remains of the theories we use to understand our world? With lyrical and lucid fury, Hamid Dabashi exposes the racist roots of Western philosophy, demanding that readers overcome its pernicious phantom of relevance. Rather than perceiving “the West” as giving carte blanche to Israel, Dabashi insists that Israel must be understood as its quintessence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf Israel is the West and the West is Israel, then Palestine is the world and the world is Palestine. Holding to glimmers from revolutionary works of literature and film, Dabashi argues, in grief and love, that the wretched of the earth need poetry after barbarism—and that Palestine is the site of a liberated imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the author:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHamid Dabashi\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis the Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. Among Dabashi’s recent books are \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eOn Edward Said: Remembrance of Things Past\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe End of Two Illusions: Islam after the West\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eIran in Revolt: Revolutionary Aspirations in a Post-Democratic World\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReviews:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"[A] searing condemnation of the status quo and a poignant intellectual reckoning with an unfolding tragedy.\" —Publisher's Weekly\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Dabashi’s profound reflections are intertwined with updates from Israel’s genocide in Gaza, spelling both urgency in ending the obliteration of Palestinians, and the necessity of understanding what Israel and Zionism mean, what they reflect and embody, which is the entire Western spectrum of colonial brutality.\" —Middle East Monitor\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This is a book of witness and a book of strategy disguised as philosophy. It will be shelved under Middle East Studies; it belongs on your desk, annotated, next to your news feed. Dabashi does not ask you to admire his argument. He asks you to risk something for it.\" —Middle East Eye\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"No book written in the middle of a catastrophe can close the case. After Savagery does something else. It recovers the conditions under which moral speech remains possible. It asks the reader to face a simple verdict. If a system calls itself civilisation while treating a people as disposable, then the name has rotted from within. A new moral grammar must be composed, patiently and truthfully, among those who have refused to disappear.  Dabashi does not claim to possess that grammar. He sits with its first terms. He attends to the witnesses. He records the names. He keeps the fire.\" —The New Arab\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"After Savagery is a fountain of arguments and evidence that goes beyond and gives full meaning to the critiques of ‘the West and the rest’, and of supporters of Israel’s settler colonial erasure against the Palestinian people. Palestine is a revealer—Dabashi exposes the irredeemable racism behind the posture of universalism adopted by the Global Minority (the so-called ‘West’), but he also shows the path toward collective liberation from apartheid and its genocidal consequences. The genocide in Palestine has pushed us toward a critical juncture. Suspended between abyss and hope, we have the choice to preserve what remains of humanity and rebuild Gaza and the rest of Palestine from the ashes of this monstrosity.\" —Francesca Albanese, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"In his After Savagery: Gaza, Genocide, and the Illusion of Western Civilization, the renowned Iranian scholar and a lifelong supporter of Palestinian liberation struggle, Columbia University Professor Hamid Dabash demolished rather brilliantly “the West”, from its very ideological foundations rooted in the European Enlightenment philosophy, but built on the millions of corpses, and the countless enslaved labourers and stolen or “colonized” continents and sub-continents. Dabashi urges those who identify with categorically anti-colonialist thought to read Western philosophy – and anything that bears the label “Western” – anthropologically, rather than the universally valid truth claims.\" —FORSEA\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Hamid Dabashi is one of the most brilliant and courageous truth-tellers in our grim and dim times. His powerful analysis and poignant words should inspire all who see the flagrant hypocrisy of the West and seek justice for the wretched of the earth.\"\u003cbr\u003e―Dr. Cornel West\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"After Savagery illuminates why the Gaza genocide exposes the definitional barbarity of the project of European modernity, of which Zionism is an integral part. The engine of Dabashi’s book is the question of what we owe Palestinians beyond their metaphorical meanings for an anticolonial struggle. Rather than solipsistically instrumentalizing Palestinian suffering for rehabilitating the modern West’s presumed moral authority or Jewish innocence as \"exilic\" as so many other authors in the post-Holocaust and post-Gaza genre book business do, After Savagery enacts a stunning decolonial move through a poetic meditation on an intersectional imagination that destabilizes modernity’s genocidal logic.\" ―Atalia Omer, author of Days of Awe: Reimagining Jewishness in Solidarity with Palestinians\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Based on a rich survey of poems, literature and philosophical tracts, Hamid Dabashi exposes how the genocide in Gaza epitomizes a longer history of racism, Islamophobia and orientalism that produced the colonial and post-colonial global order, and informed Europe’s most known thinkers who ironically perceived themselves as beacons of humanity.  An incisive, disturbing yet thoroughly convincing essay.\" —Ilan Pappé\u003cbr\u003e\"[After Savagery] covers a lot of ground. It delves deeply into ontology, epistemology, semantics, literature, art, filmmaking, poetry, politics, religion, exilism, and — especially — philosophy. After Savagery is not focused solely on the here and now of what is transpiring in historical Palestine. The book goes into the history, background, and philosophy that enables genocide. The book is scholarly and is well footnoted. If that is what the reader is looking for, then Hamid Dabashi’s After Savagery is well worth the read.\" —Dissident Voice\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Arguing that settler colonial genocide in Gaza is historically an extension of the Holocaust, which itself was preceded by racial genocidal practices in the colonies, Hamid Dabashi considers solidarity with Palestine as a truly universal liberation that exposes the provinciality of Western philosophy. If readers evade facing Dabashi’s compelling arguments, they can’t but enjoy his erudition, his almost poetic literary style, and admire his resolute moral commitment.\"\u003cbr\u003e―Azmi Bishara, author of Palestine: Matters of Truth and Justice\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"With formidable rigour, sophistication, and tenacity, Hamid Dabashi situates Palestine at the heart of a global struggle for liberation from the age of European colonialism. After Savagery places the reader on a daring path to build a new world that is fit for the \"total human beings\" that we are and aspire to be. Dabashi resolutely and defiantly insists that after savagery must come a committed intellectual and political project of resuscitating our collective humanity.\"\u003cbr\u003e―Muhannad Ayyash author of Lordship and Liberation in Palestine-Israel\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Hamid Dabashi has written a distinguished philosophical reflection on civilization and its opposite, on violence in thought and action, on the role of the imagination in human life, and on the enduring consequences of colonialism. In his work, Gaza becomes a paradigmatic example of the conceptual denigration and attempted eradication of all those whom Western governments and thinkers define as irremediably ‘other’. Dabashi’s analysis is truly impressive in its erudition, sympathetic breadth of vision, and passionate engagement.\"\u003cbr\u003e―Raymond Geuss, professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Cambridge\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Reading Dabashi is like going for an extended coffee with a very smart friend.”\u003cbr\u003e―Vijay Prashad, author of The Poorer Nations\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“The grand clash of civilizations and ideologies will increasingly take place in the West, with such writers and intellectuals as Dabashi.”\u003cbr\u003e―The Guardian\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“A leading light in Iranian studies.”\u003cbr\u003e―The Chronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Punk For Peace","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ New \/ $2 of each item","offer_id":47447384981718,"sku":null,"price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0754\/3639\/2662\/files\/9798888904503.png?v=1762709903"},{"product_id":"no-neutrals-there-us-labor-zionism-and-the-struggle-for-palestine-by-jeff-schuhrke-new","title":"Jeff Schuhrke: No Neutrals There - US Labor, Zionism, and the Struggle for Palestine","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe definitive history of the US labor movement’s complicity in Zionist settler colonialism, and a call for today’s labor militants to organize in solidarity with Palestinians.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eUS trade unionists are often told to keep quiet and remain neutral on Palestine because “Palestine has nothing to do with unions” and “weighing in” only distracts from struggles for better working conditions. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eNo Neutrals There\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e makes a timely and critical intervention against that pervasive sentiment by recounting the history of the US labor movement’s century-long involvement in the struggle for Palestine. Scholar Jeff Schuhrke convincingly demonstrates that unions in the United States have never been silent or neutral on the question of Palestine. In fact, they have played a key role—in the initial Zionist colonization of Palestine, the foundation of the Israeli state in 1948, supporting US foreign policy commitments to Israel, and the ongoing suppression of the Palestinian liberation movement.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn his compelling telling of this history, Schuhrke conclusively shows that US unions helped build and maintain the state of Israel, and also shines a light on important exceptions to this rule: instances of US labor solidarity with the Palestinian freedom struggle that point the way forward for today’s labor movement.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the author:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJeff Schuhrke\u003c\/strong\u003e is a labor historian and assistant professor at the Harry Van Arsdale Jr. School of Labor Studies, SUNY Empire State University. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eBlue-Collar Empire: The Untold Story of US Labor’s Global Anticommunist Crusade\u003c\/em\u003e. His writing appears frequently in \u003cem\u003eJacobin\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eIn These Times\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eJewish Currents\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eLabor Notes\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReviews:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Schuhrke’s unspooling of American unions’ international machinations is impressive and concise. No Neutrals There is a unique and revealing look at one facet of America’s deep relationship with Israel.“  —Publisher's Weekly, Starred Review\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Jeff Schuhrke repudiates the Zionism of AFL-CIO 'leaders,' and argues that workers should support Palestinian efforts for liberation...This book is excellent, deserves wide attention, and this work, plus his Blue-Collar Empire, has put him in the top rank of today’s labor historians.” —Kim Scipes, Countercurrents\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Schuhrke’s sweeping and accessible book offers a detailed history of U.S. labor’s century-long alliance with the Zionist movement and the State of Israel, examining the forces and developments that built and sustained that alliance as well as those that opposed it. This is a critical resource for organizers within both the U.S. labor and Palestine solidarity movements as they work to strengthen efforts to build an anti-militarist labor politics that can win justice for workers and oppressed people both at home and abroad.\" —Derek Seidman, Truthout\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“The book is incredibly timely and impressively detailed. Schuhrke proves his worth as a historian by telling a meaningful story about U.S. labor with a lesson to be learned.”—Samantha Cooney, UE News\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"No Neutrals There tells the shameful story of how U.S. labor leaders supported and helped fund the century-long Zionist project of colonization, occupation, and the ethnic cleansing of Palestine.  But it is also a history of labor anti-Zionism, Palestinian labor politics, and the promise of working-class internationalism.  There are no neutrals under colonialism and genocide, just as there are no neutrals in the class struggle.\" —Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“No Neutrals There is a vital and unflinching account of the deep entanglement between the US trade union movement and Zionist settler colonialism. It dismantles the myth of union neutrality on Palestine and exposes the cost of silence. This book is a critical resource for all workers organising toward genuine internationalism and justice.” —Rafeef Ziadah, co-author of Resisting Erasure: Capital, Imperialism and Race in Palestine\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Jeff Schuhrke's book is a damning indictment of the way American trade unions betrayed Palestinians by aiding the colonization of their homeland. This soul-searching journey is needed so that American trade unions, and the Western Left as a whole, can help to rectify a historical injustice that is a century old. This book covers an untold history that needed to be exposed for the sake of the struggle for freedom in Palestine.” —Ilan Pappé, author of The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Historian Jeff Schuhrke—author of the “go-to” book on US labor and foreign policy during the Cold War—explains why the AFL-CIO and other US unions’ elected leaders have long provided unquestioning support for Israel. This despite the fact that the global working-class watches in horror as millions of Palestinians starve and believes they deserve what all humans want: peace, equal rights, and justice. To understand the contradiction at the heart of US foreign policy, read Schuhrke’s book.\" —Peter Cole, author of Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"When some American unions began to call for a ceasefire in Gaza, they were widely criticized in the political mainstream for venturing beyond their proper domain. This crucial, illuminating book shows that nothing could be further from the truth. The US labor movement has been entangled deeply with Zionism since long before Israel's establishment.\" —Gabriel Winant, author of The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Punk For Peace","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ New \/ $2 of each item","offer_id":47447454515414,"sku":null,"price":18.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0754\/3639\/2662\/files\/9798888904558.png?v=1762710299"},{"product_id":"born-equal-remaking-america-s-constitution-1840-1920","title":"Akhil Reed Amar: Born Equal: Remaking America’s Constitution, 1840–1920","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom “one of our most prodigious constitutional scholars” (Jonathan Eig), the definitive history of how the ideal of birth equality reshaped the American Constitution, from antebellum debates over slavery and secession, to the Civil War and emancipation, to women’s suffrage\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1840, millions of Black Americans groaned in the chains of slavery. By 1920, millions of American men and women of every race had won the vote.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Born Equal, the prizewinning constitutional historian Akhil Reed Amar recounts the dramatic constitutional debates that unfolded across these eight decades, when four glorious amendments abolished slavery, secured Black and female citizenship, and extended suffrage regardless of race or gender. At the heart of this era was the epic and ever-evolving idea that all Americans are created equal. The promise of birth equality sat at the base of the 1776 Declaration of Independence. But in the nineteenth century, remarkable American women and men—especially Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Abraham Lincoln—elaborated a new vision of what this ideal demanded. Their debates played out from Seneca Falls to the halls of Congress, from Bleeding Kansas to Gettysburg, from Ford’s Theater to the White House gates, ultimately transforming the nation and the world. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn ambitious narrative history and a penetrating work of legal and political analysis, Born Equal is a vital new portrait of America’s winding road toward equality.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Punk For Peace","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover \/ New \/ $2 of each item","offer_id":67844144660694,"sku":null,"price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0754\/3639\/2662\/files\/9781541605190.jpg?v=1793550284"},{"product_id":"caste-the-origins-of-our-discontents","title":"Isabel Wilkerson: Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents","description":"\u003cp\u003e#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NEW YORK TIMES READERS PICK: 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21st CENTURY • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • “An instant American classic and almost certainly the keynote nonfiction book of the American century thus far.”—Dwight Garner, The New York Times\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Warmth of Other Suns examines the unspoken caste system that has shaped America and shows how our lives today are still defined by a hierarchy of human divisions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e#1 NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR: Time\u003cbr\u003eONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, O: The Oprah Magazine, NPR, Bloomberg, The Christian Science Monitor, New York Post, The New York Public Library, Fortune, Smithsonian Magazine, Marie Claire, Slate, Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWinner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize • National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist • Winner of the Carl Sandburg Literary Award • Dayton Literary Prize Finalist • PEN\/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction Finalist • PEN\/Jean Stein Book Award Finalist • Kirkus Prize Finalist\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“As we go about our daily lives, caste is the wordless usher in a darkened theater, flashlight cast down in the aisles, guiding us to our assigned seats for a performance. The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or morality. It is about power—which groups have it and which do not.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeyond race, class, or other factors, there is a powerful caste system that influences people’s lives and behavior and the nation’s fate. Linking the caste systems of America, India, and Nazi Germany, Isabel Wilkerson explores eight pillars that underlie caste systems across civilizations, including divine will, bloodlines, stigma, and more. Using riveting stories about people—including Martin Luther King, Jr., baseball’s Satchel Paige, a single father and his toddler son, Wilkerson herself, and many others—she shows the ways that the insidious undertow of caste is experienced every day. Finally, she points forward to ways America can move beyond the artificial and destructive separations of human divisions, toward hope in our common humanity.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Punk For Peace","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover \/ Used: Like New \/ $2 of each item","offer_id":67844242604246,"sku":null,"price":8.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0754\/3639\/2662\/files\/9780593230251.jpg?v=1793551383"},{"product_id":"long-walk-to-freedom-the-autobiography-of-nelson-mandela","title":"Nelson Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNelson Mandela was one of the great moral and political leaders of his time: an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his country. After his triumphant release in 1990 from more than a quarter-century of imprisonment, Mandela was at the center of the most compelling and inspiring political drama in the world. As president of the African National Congress and head of South Africa's antiapartheid movement, he was instrumental in moving the nation toward multiracial government and majority rule. He is still revered everywhere as a vital force in the fight for human rights and racial equality.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eLong Walk to Freedom\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is his moving and exhilarating autobiography, destined to take its place among the finest memoirs of history's greatest figures. Here for the first time, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela told the extraordinary story of his life -- an epic of struggle, setback, renewed hope, and ultimate triumph.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Punk For Peace","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ Used: Like New \/ $2 of each item","offer_id":67844366696662,"sku":null,"price":6.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0754\/3639\/2662\/files\/9780316545853.jpg?v=1793553127"},{"product_id":"stamped-racism-antiracism-and-you-a-remix-of-the-national-book-award-winning-stamped-from-the-beginning","title":"Jason Reynolds \u0026 Ibram X. Kendi: Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning","description":"\u003cp\u003eDon’t miss this “fresh and conversational” (TIME Magazine), “potent and provocative” (The San Francisco Chronicle), #1 New York Times bestselling exploration of racism—and antiracism—in America.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is NOT a history book.\u003cbr\u003eThis is a book about the here and now.\u003cbr\u003eA book to help us better understand why we are where we are.\u003cbr\u003eA book about race.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe construct of race has always been used to gain and keep power, to create dynamics that separate and silence. Racist ideas are woven into the fabric of this country, and the first step to building an antiracist America is acknowledging America's racist past and present. This book takes you on that journey, showing how racist ideas started and were spread, and how they can be discredited. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough a gripping, fast-paced, and energizing narrative written by beloved award-winner Jason Reynolds with research from renowned author Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped shines a light on the many insidious forms of racist ideas—and on ways you can identify and stamp out racist thoughts, leading to a better future.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDownload the free educator guide here: https:\/\/www.hachettebookgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Stamped-Educator-Guide.pdf\u003cbr\u003eNow available for younger readers: Stamped (for Kids): Racism, Antiracism, and You\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Punk For Peace","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover \/ Used: Like New \/ $2 of each item","offer_id":67844402839766,"sku":null,"price":8.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0754\/3639\/2662\/files\/9780316453691.jpg?v=1793553997"},{"product_id":"beautiful-country-burn-again-democracy-rebellion-and-revolution","title":"Ben Fountain: Beautiful Country Burn Again: Democracy, Rebellion, and Revolution","description":"\u003cp\u003e“Ben Fountain’s BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY BURN AGAIN is the bravest, boldest, most bracing political book of the year.” –Bill Moyers\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a sweeping work of reportage set over the course of 2016, New York Times bestselling author Ben Fountain recounts a surreal year of politics and an exploration of the third American existential crisis\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwice before in its history, the United States has been faced with a crisis so severe it was forced to reinvent itself in order to survive: first, the struggle over slavery, culminating in the Civil War, and the second, the Great Depression, which led to President Roosevelt’s New Deal and the establishment of America as a social-democratic state. In a sequence of essays that excavate the past while laying bare the political upheaval of 2016, Ben Fountain argues that the United States may be facing a third existential crisis, one that will require a “burning” of the old order as America attempts to remake itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeautiful Country Burn Again narrates a shocking year in American politics, moving from the early days of the Iowa Caucus to the crystalizing moments of the Democratic and Republican national conventions, and culminating in the aftershocks of the weeks following election night. Along the way, Fountain probes deeply into history, illuminating the forces and watershed moments of the past that mirror and precipitated the present, from the hollowed-out notion of the American Dream, to Richard Nixon’s southern strategy, to our weaponized new conception of American exceptionalism, to the cult of celebrity that gave rise to Donald Trump.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn an urgent and deeply incisive voice, Ben Fountain has fused history and the present day to paint a startling portrait of the state of our nation.  Beautiful Country Burn Again is a searing indictment of how we came to this point, and where we may be headed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Punk For Peace","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover \/ Used: Like New \/ $2 of each item","offer_id":67844462084310,"sku":null,"price":8.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0754\/3639\/2662\/files\/9780062688842.jpg?v=1793554943"},{"product_id":"south-to-america-a-journey-below-the-mason-dixon-to-understand-the-soul-of-a-nation","title":"Imani Perry: South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation","description":"\u003cp\u003eWINNER OF THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“An elegant meditation on the complexities of the American South—and thus of America—by an esteemed daughter of the South and one of the great intellectuals of our time. An inspiration.” —Isabel Wilkerson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn essential, surprising journey through the history, rituals, and landscapes of the American South—and a revelatory argument for why you must understand the South in order to understand America\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe all think we know the South. Even those who have never lived there can rattle off a list of signifiers: the Civil War, Gone with the Wind, the Ku Klux Klan, plantations, football, Jim Crow, slavery. But the idiosyncrasies, dispositions, and habits of the region are stranger and more complex than much of the country tends to acknowledge. In South to America, Imani Perry shows that the meaning of American is inextricably linked with the South, and that our understanding of its history and culture is the key to understanding the nation as a whole.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the story of a Black woman and native Alabaman returning to the region she has always called home and considering it with fresh eyes. Her journey is full of detours, deep dives, and surprising encounters with places and people. She renders Southerners from all walks of life with sensitivity and honesty, sharing her thoughts about a troubling history and the ritual humiliations and joys that characterize so much of Southern life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWeaving together stories of immigrant communities, contemporary artists, exploitative opportunists, enslaved peoples, unsung heroes, her own ancestors, and her lived experiences, Imani Perry crafts a tapestry unlike any other. With uncommon insight and breathtaking clarity, South to America offers an assertion that if we want to build a more humane future for the United States, we must center our concern below the Mason-Dixon Line.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Recommended Read from: The New Yorker • The New York Times • TIME • Oprah Daily • USA Today • Vulture • Essence • Esquire • W Magazine • Atlanta Journal-Constitution • PopSugar • Book Riot • Chicago Review of Books • Electric Literature • Lit Hub\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Punk For Peace","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover \/ Used: Like New \/ $2 of each item","offer_id":67844484399318,"sku":null,"price":8.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0754\/3639\/2662\/files\/9780062977403.jpg?v=1793555272"},{"product_id":"a-peoples-history-of-the-united-states","title":"Howard Zinn: A People's History of the United States","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is the controversial alternative history of the United States based less on great events and great people but more on the common people and their resistence to economic and political elites.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Punk For Peace","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ Used: Good \/ $2 of each item","offer_id":67844500193494,"sku":null,"price":4.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0754\/3639\/2662\/files\/20261101_125728.jpg?v=1793555985"},{"product_id":"the-true-believer-thoughts-on-the-nature-of-mass-movements-perennial-classics","title":"Eric Hoffer: The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements","description":"\u003cp\u003e“Its theme is political fanaticism, with which it deals severely and brilliantly.” —New Yorker\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe famous bestseller with “concise insight into what drives the mind of the fanatic and the dynamics of a mass movement” (Wall Street Journal) by the legendary San Francisco longshoreman.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA stevedore on the San Francisco docks in the 1940s, Eric Hoffer wrote philosophical treatises in his spare time while living in the railroad yards. The True Believer—the first and most famous of his books—was made into a bestseller when President Eisenhower cited it during one of the earliest television press conferences.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCalled a “brilliant and original inquiry” and “a genuine contribution to our social thought” by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., this landmark in the field of social psychology is completely relevant and essential for understanding the world today as it delivers a visionary, highly provocative look into the mind of the fanatic and a penetrating study of how an individual becomes one.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Punk For Peace","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ Used: Good \/ $2 of each item","offer_id":67844564877526,"sku":null,"price":4.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0754\/3639\/2662\/files\/20261101_130807.jpg?v=1793556608"},{"product_id":"the-hill-we-climb-an-inaugural-poem-for-the-country","title":"Amanda Gorman: The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe instant #1 New York Times bestseller and #1 USA Today bestseller\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmanda Gorman’s electrifying and historic poem “The Hill We Climb,” read at President Joe Biden’s inauguration.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Stunning.” —CNN\u003cbr\u003e“Dynamic.” —NPR\u003cbr\u003e“Deeply rousing and uplifting.” —Vogue\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eOn January 20, 2021, Amanda Gorman became the sixth and youngest poet to deliver a poetry reading at a presidential inauguration. Taking the stage after the 46th president of the United States, Joe Biden, Gorman captivated the nation and brought hope to viewers around the globe with her call for unity and healing. Her poem “The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country” can now be cherished in this special gift edition, perfect for any reader looking for some inspiration. Including an enduring foreword by Oprah Winfrey, this remarkable keepsake celebrates the promise of America and affirms the power of poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Punk For Peace","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover \/ Used: Like New \/ $2 of each item","offer_id":67844695490774,"sku":null,"price":4.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0754\/3639\/2662\/files\/9780593465271.jpg?v=1793558302"},{"product_id":"the-education-of-an-idealist-a-memoir","title":"Samantha Power: The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003eA NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET\u003cbr\u003eJOURNAL, AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn intimate, powerful, and galvanizing memoir by Pulitzer Prize\u003cbr\u003ewinner, human rights advocate, and former US Ambassador to the UN Samantha\u003cbr\u003ePower. Named one of the best books of the year:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe New York Times • National Public Radio • Time • The\u003cbr\u003eEconomist • The Washington Post • Vanity Fair • Christian Science Monitor •\u003cbr\u003ePublishers Weekly • Audible\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Her highly personal and reflective memoir . . . is a must-read\u003cbr\u003efor anyone who cares about our role in a changing world.”—President Barack\u003cbr\u003eObama\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIncludes an updated afterword\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTracing her distinctly American journey from immigrant to war\u003cbr\u003ecorrespondent to presidential Cabinet official, Samantha Power’s acclaimed\u003cbr\u003ememoir is a unique blend of suspenseful storytelling, vivid character\u003cbr\u003eportraits, and shrewd political insight. After her critiques of US foreign\u003cbr\u003epolicy caught the eye of Senator Barack Obama, he invited her to work with him\u003cbr\u003eon Capitol Hill and then on his presidential campaign. When Obama won the\u003cbr\u003epresidency, Power went from being an activist outsider to serving as his human\u003cbr\u003erights adviser and, in 2013, becoming the youngest-ever US Ambassador to the\u003cbr\u003eUnited Nations. Power transports us from her childhood in Dublin to the streets\u003cbr\u003eof war-torn Bosnia to the White House Situation Room and the world of\u003cbr\u003ehigh-stakes diplomacy, offering a compelling and deeply honest look at\u003cbr\u003enavigating the halls of power while trying to put one’s ideals into practice.\u003cbr\u003eAlong the way, she lays bare the searing battles and defining moments of her\u003cbr\u003elife, shows how she juggled the demands of a 24\/7 national security job with\u003cbr\u003eraising two young children, and makes the case for how we each can advance the cause\u003cbr\u003eof human dignity. This is an unforgettable account of the power of idealism—and\u003cbr\u003eof one person’s fierce determination to make a difference.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This is a wonderful book. […] The interweaving of Power’s\u003cbr\u003epersonal story, family story, diplomatic history and moral arguments is\u003cbr\u003eexecuted seamlessly and with unblinking honesty.”—THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, The New York Times Book Review \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Truly engrossing…A pleasure to\u003cbr\u003eread.”—RACHEL MADDOW\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A beautiful memoir about the times we’re living in and the\u003cbr\u003equestions we must ask ourselves…I honestly couldn’t put it down.” —CHERYL\u003cbr\u003eSTRAYED, author of Wild\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Power’s compelling memoir provides critically important\u003cbr\u003einsights we should all understand as we face some of the most vexing issues of\u003cbr\u003eour time.” —BRYAN STEVENSON, author of Just Mercy\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Punk For Peace","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover \/ Used: Like New \/ $2 of each item","offer_id":67859811631318,"sku":null,"price":8.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0754\/3639\/2662\/files\/9780062820693.jpg?v=1793661660"},{"product_id":"up-from-slavery-an-autobiography-penguin-classics","title":"Booker T. Washington: Up from Slavery: An Autobiography","description":"\u003cp\u003eSelected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Up from Slavery, Washington recounts the story of his life—from slave to educator. The early sections deal with his upbringing as a slave and his efforts to get an education. Washington details his transition from student to teacher, and outlines his own development as an educator and founder of the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. In the final chapters of Up From Slavery, Washington describes his career as a public speaker and civil rights activist.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Punk For Peace","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ Used: Well Loved \/ $2 of each item","offer_id":67859830276310,"sku":"9780140390513","price":3.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0754\/3639\/2662\/files\/9780140390513.jpg?v=1793661660"},{"product_id":"hidden-in-plain-view-a-secret-story-of-quilts-and-the-underground-railroad","title":"Jacqueline L. Tobin \u0026 Raymond G. Dobard: Hidden in Plain View: A Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground Railroad","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe fascinating story of a friendship, a lost tradition, and an incredible discovery, revealing how enslaved men and women made encoded quilts and then used them to navigate their escape on the Underground Railroad.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Hidden in Plain View, historian Jacqueline Tobin and scholar Raymond Dobard offer the first proof that certain quilt patterns, including a prominent one called the Charleston Code, were, in fact, essential tools for escape along the Underground Railroad. In 1993, historian Jacqueline Tobin met African American quilter Ozella Williams amid piles of beautiful handmade quilts in the Old Market Building of Charleston, South Carolina. With the admonition to \"write this down,\" Williams began to describe how slaves made coded quilts and used them to navigate their escape on the Underground Railroad. But just as quickly as she started, Williams stopped, informing Tobin that she would learn the rest when she was \"ready.\" During the three years it took for Williams's narrative to unfold—and as the friendship and trust between the two women grew—Tobin enlisted Raymond Dobard, Ph.D., an art history professor and well-known African American quilter, to help unravel the mystery.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart adventure and part history, Hidden in Plain View traces the origin of the Charleston Code from Africa to the Carolinas, from the low-country island Gullah peoples to free blacks living in the cities of the North, and shows how three people from completely different backgrounds pieced together one amazing American story.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith a new afterword. Illlustrations and photographs throughout, including a full-color photo insert.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Punk For Peace","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ Used: Like New \/ $2 of each item","offer_id":67859843317974,"sku":"9780385497671","price":6.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0754\/3639\/2662\/files\/9780385497671.jpg?v=1793661660"},{"product_id":"year-zero-a-history-of-1945","title":"Ian Buruma: Year Zero: A History of 1945","description":"\u003cp\u003eA marvelous global history of the pivotal year 1945 as a new world emerged from the ruins of World War II\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYear Zero is a landmark reckoning with the great drama that ensued after war came to an end in 1945. One world had ended and a new, uncertain one was beginning. Regime change had come on a global scale: across Asia (including China, Korea, Indochina, and the Philippines, and of course Japan) and all of continental Europe. Out of the often vicious power struggles that ensued emerged the modern world as we know it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn human terms, the scale of transformation is almost impossible to imagine. Great cities around the world lay in ruins, their populations decimated, displaced, starving. Harsh revenge was meted out on a wide scale, and the ground was laid for much horror to come. At the same time, in the wake of unspeakable loss, the euphoria of the liberated was extraordinary, and the revelry unprecedented. The postwar years gave rise to the European welfare state, the United Nations, decolonization, Japanese pacifism, and the European Union. Social, cultural, and political “reeducation” was imposed on vanquished by victors on a scale that also had no historical precedent. Much that was done was ill advised, but in hindsight, as Ian Buruma shows us, these efforts were in fact relatively enlightened, humane, and effective.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA poignant grace note throughout this history is Buruma’s own father’s story. Seized by the Nazis during the occupation of Holland, he spent much of the war in Berlin as a laborer, and by war’s end was literally hiding in the rubble of a flattened city, having barely managed to survive starvation rations, Allied bombing, and Soviet shock troops when the end came. His journey home and attempted reentry into “normalcy” stand in many ways for his generation’s experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA work of enormous range and stirring human drama, conjuring both the Asian and European theaters with equal fluency, Year Zero is a book that Ian Buruma is perhaps uniquely positioned to write. It is surely his masterpiece.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Punk For Peace","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ Used: Like New \/ $2 of each item","offer_id":67859915538646,"sku":null,"price":6.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0754\/3639\/2662\/files\/9780143125976.jpg?v=1793663538"},{"product_id":"the-tipping-point-how-little-things-can-make-a-big-difference","title":"Malcolm Gladwell: The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference","description":"\u003cp\u003eUncover the captivating science behind viral trends in business, marketing, and human behavior in the breakthrough debut — named one of the best books of the decade by The A.V. Club and The Guardian — by Malcolm Gladwell, the bestselling author of The Bomber Mafia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire. Just as a single sick person can start an epidemic of the flu, so too can a small but precisely targeted push cause a fashion trend, the popularity of a new product, or a drop in the crime rate. This widely acclaimed bestseller, in which Malcolm Gladwell explores and brilliantly illuminates the tipping point phenomenon, is already changing the way people throughout the world think about selling products and disseminating ideas.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“A wonderful page-turner about a fascinating idea that should affect the way every thinking person looks at the world.” —Michael Lewis\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Punk For Peace","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ Used: Good \/ $2 of each item","offer_id":67859949191382,"sku":null,"price":4.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0754\/3639\/2662\/files\/tipping_point.png?v=1793665147"},{"product_id":"naked-in-baghdad-the-iraq-war-and-the-aftermath-as-seen-by-nprs-correspondent-anne-garrels","title":"Anne Garrels: Naked in Baghdad: The Iraq War and the Aftermath as Seen by NPR's Correspondent Anne Garrels","description":"\u003cp\u003eNational Public Radio's correspondent provides a brilliant, intimate, on-the-ground account of history in the making with Naked in Baghdad.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs NPR's senior foreign correspondent, Anne Garrels has covered conflicts in Chechnya, Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, and elsewhere. She is renowned for direct, down-to-earth, insightful reportage, and for her independent take on what she sees. One of only sixteen un-embedded American journalists who stayed in Baghdad's now-legendary Palestine Hotel throughout the American invasion of Iraq, she was at the very center of the storm. Naked in Baghdad gives us the sights, sounds, and smells of our latest war with unparalleled vividness and immediacy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGarrels's narrative starts with several trips she made to Baghdad before the war, beginning in October 2002. At its heart is her evolving relationship with her Iraqi driver\/minder, Amer, who becomes her friend and confidant, often serving as her eyes and ears among the populace and taking her where no other reporter was able to penetrate. Amer's own strong reactions and personal dilemma provide a trenchant counterpoint to daily events. The story is also punctuated by e-mail bulletins sent by Garrels's husband, Vint Lawrence, to their friends around the world, giving a private view of the rough-and-tumble, often dangerous life of a foreign correspondent, along with some much-needed comic relief.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe result is enthralling, deeply personal, utterly authentic--an on-the-ground picture of the war in Iraq that no one else could have written. As Chicago Sun-Times critic Lloyd Sachs wrote about Garrels's work in Baghdad, \"a few choice words, honestly delivered, are worth more than a thousand pictures . . . In your mind's eye, they carry lasting truth.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Punk For Peace","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ Used: Good \/ $2 of each item","offer_id":67859878772950,"sku":null,"price":4.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0754\/3639\/2662\/files\/9780312424190.jpg?v=1793663538"},{"product_id":"hiroshima","title":"John Hersey: Hiroshima","description":"\u003cp\u003ePulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author John Hersey's seminal work of narrative nonfiction which has defined the way we think about nuclear warfare.  “One of the great classics of the war\" (The New Republic) that tells what happened in Hiroshima during World War II through the memories of the survivors of the first atomic bomb ever dropped on a city.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The perspective [Hiroshima] offers from the bomb’s actual victims is the mandatory counterpart to any Oppenheimer viewing.\" —GQ Magazine\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Nothing can be said about this book that can equal what the book has to say. It speaks for itself, and in an unforgettable way, for humanity.” —The New York Times\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eHiroshima is the story of six human beings who lived through the greatest single manmade disaster in history. John Hersey tells what these six -- a clerk, a widowed seamstress, a physician, a Methodist minister, a young surgeon, and a German Catholic priest -- were doing at 8:15 a.m. on August 6, 1945, when Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atomic bomb ever dropped on a city. Then he follows the course of their lives hour by hour, day by day.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe New Yorker of August 31, 1946, devoted all its space to this story. The immediate repercussions were vast: newspapers here and abroad reprinted it; during evening half-hours it was read over the network of the American Broadcasting Company; leading editorials were devoted to it in uncounted newspapers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlmost four decades after the original publication of this celebrated book John Hersey went back to Hiroshima in search of the people whose stories he had told. His account of what he discovered about them -- the variety of ways in which they responded to the past and went on with their lives -- is now the eloquent and moving final chapter of Hiroshima.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Punk For Peace","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ Used: Well Loved \/ $2 of each item","offer_id":67859875561686,"sku":null,"price":3.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0754\/3639\/2662\/files\/9780679721031.jpg?v=1793663538"},{"product_id":"freedom","title":"Sebastian Junger: Freedom","description":"\u003cp\u003eA profound rumination on the concept of freedom from the New York Times bestselling author of Tribe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThroughout history, humans have been driven by the quest for two cherished ideals: community and freedom. The two don’t coexist easily. We value individuality and self-reliance, yet are utterly dependent on community for our most basic needs. In this intricately crafted and thought-provoking book, Sebastian Junger examines the tension that lies at the heart of what it means to be human.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor much of a year, Junger and three friends—a conflict photographer and two Afghan War vets—walked the railroad lines of the East Coast. It was an experiment in personal autonomy, but also in interdependence. Dodging railroad cops, sleeping under bridges, cooking over fires, and drinking from creeks and rivers, the four men forged a unique reliance on one another.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Freedom, Junger weaves his account of this journey together with primatology and boxing strategy, the history of labor strikes and Apache raiders, the role of women in resistance movements, and the brutal reality of life on the Pennsylvania frontier. Written in exquisite, razor-sharp prose, the result is a powerful examination of the primary desire that defines us.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Punk For Peace","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover \/ Used: Well Loved \/ $2 of each item","offer_id":67859890634966,"sku":null,"price":4.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0754\/3639\/2662\/files\/9781982153410.jpg?v=1793663540"},{"product_id":"in-the-shadow-of-statues-a-white-southerner-confronts-history","title":"Mitch Landrieu: In the Shadow of Statues: A White Southerner Confronts History","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"An extraordinarily powerful journey that is both political and personal...An important book for everyone in America to read.\" --Walter Isaacson,#1 New York Times bestselling author of Leonardo Da Vinci and Steve Jobs\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe New Orleans mayor who removed the Confederate statues confronts the racism that shapes us and argues for white America to reckon with its past. A passionate, personal, urgent book from the man who sparked a national debate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"There is a difference between remembrance of history and reverence for it.\" When Mitch Landrieu addressed the people of New Orleans in May 2017 about his decision to take down four Confederate monuments, including the statue of Robert E. Lee, he struck a nerve nationally, and his speech has now been heard or seen by millions across the country. In his first book, Mayor Landrieu discusses his personal journey on race as well as the path he took to making the decision to remove the monuments, tackles the broader history of slavery, race, and institutional inequities that still bedevil America, and traces his personal relationship to this history. His father, as state legislator and mayor, was a huge force in the integration of New Orleans in the 1960s and 19070s. Landrieu grew up with a progressive education in one of the nation's most racially divided cities, but even he had to relearn Southern history as it really happened.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEqual parts unblinking memoir, history, and prescription for finally confronting America's most painful legacy, In the Shadow of Statues will contribute strongly to the national conversation about race in the age of Donald Trump, at a time when racism is resurgent with seemingly tacit approval from the highest levels of government and when too many Americans have placed a misnostalgia for a time and place that never existed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Punk For Peace","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover \/ Used: Good \/ $2 of each item","offer_id":67859920126166,"sku":null,"price":6.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0754\/3639\/2662\/files\/9780525559443.jpg?v=1793663540"},{"product_id":"the-world-is-flat-a-brief-history-of-the-twenty-first-century","title":"Thomas Friedman: The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen scholars write the history of the world twenty years from now, and they come to the chapter \"Y2K to March 2004,\" what will they say was the most crucial development? The attacks on the World Trade Center on 9\/11 and the Iraq war? Or the convergence of technology and events that allowed India, China, and so many other countries to become part of the global supply chain for services and manufacturing, creating an explosion of wealth in the middle classes of the world's two biggest nations, giving them a huge new stake in the success of globalization? And with this \"flattening\" of the globe, which requires us to run faster in order to stay in place, has the world gotten too small and too fast for human beings and their political systems to adjust in a stable manner?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this brilliant new book, the award-winning New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman demystifies the brave new world for readers, allowing them to make sense of the often bewildering global scene unfolding before their eyes. With his inimitable ability to translate complex foreign policy and economic issues, Friedman explains how the flattening of the world happened at the dawn of the twenty-first century; what it means to countries, companies, communities, and individuals; and how governments and societies can, and must, adapt. The World Is Flat is the timely and essential update on globalization, its successes and discontents, powerfully illuminated by one of our most respected journalists.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Punk For Peace","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover \/ Used: Good \/ $2 of each item","offer_id":67865618120918,"sku":null,"price":6.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0754\/3639\/2662\/files\/the_world_is_flat.jpg?v=1793722472"},{"product_id":"guns-germs-and-steel-the-fates-of-human-societies","title":"Jared Diamond: Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Fascinating.... Lays a foundation for understanding human history.\"―Bill Gates\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this \"artful, informative, and delightful\" (William H. McNeill, New York Review of Books) book, Jared Diamond convincingly argues that geographical and environmental factors shaped the modern world. Societies that had had a head start in food production advanced beyond the hunter-gatherer stage, and then developed religion --as well as nasty germs and potent weapons of war --and adventured on sea and land to conquer and decimate preliterate cultures. A major advance in our understanding of human societies, Guns, Germs, and Steel chronicles the way that the modern world came to be and stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science, the Rhone-Poulenc Prize, and the Commonwealth club of California's Gold Medal.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Punk For Peace","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ Used: Good \/ $2 of each item","offer_id":67865634832598,"sku":null,"price":4.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0754\/3639\/2662\/files\/9780393317558.jpg?v=1793721931"},{"product_id":"collapse-how-societies-choose-to-fail-or-succeed","title":"Jared Diamond: Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed","description":"\u003cp\u003eA study of the downfall of some of history's greatest civilizations, written by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Guns, Germs, and Steel, includes coverage of such cultures as the Anasazi, the Maya, and the Viking colony on Greenland, tracing patterns of environmental damage, climate change, poor political choices, and other factors that were pivotal to their demise. 250,000 first printing.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Punk For Peace","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover \/ Used: Like New \/ $2 of each item","offer_id":67865641189590,"sku":null,"price":8.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0754\/3639\/2662\/files\/9780670033379.jpg?v=1793721932"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0754\/3639\/2662\/collections\/20261101_125728.jpg?v=1793561158","url":"https:\/\/punkforpeace.com\/collections\/books-history-politics-power.oembed?page=2","provider":"Punk For Peace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}