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Quantum Entanglement (MIT Press Essential Knowledge) (Paperback)

By Jed Brody
$15.95
ISBN: 9780262538442
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Published: MIT Press - February 18th, 2020
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How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective (Paperback)

By Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (Editor)
$15.95
ISBN: 9781608468553
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Published: Haymarket Books - December 5th, 2017
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Living Weapon: Poems (Hardcover)

By Rowan Ricardo Phillips
$24.00
ISBN: 9780374191993
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Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux - February 18th, 2020
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The Cancer Journals (Paperback)

By Audre Lorde, Tracy K. Smith (Foreword by)
$14.00
ISBN: 9780143135203
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Published: Penguin Classics - October 13th, 2020
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Fra Keeler (Paperback)

By Azareen Van Der Vliet Oloomi
$16.00
ISBN: 9780984469345
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Published: Dorothy a Publishing Project - October 9th, 2012
How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America: Essays Cover Image

How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America: Essays (Paperback)

By Kiese Laymon
$16.00
ISBN: 9781982170820
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Published: Scribner - November 10th, 2020
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement Cover Image

Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement (Paperback)

By Angela Y. Davis, Frank Barat (Editor), Cornel West (Preface by)
$15.95
ISBN: 9781608465644
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Published: Haymarket Books - February 9th, 2016
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That Hair (Paperback)

By Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida, Eric M B. Becker (Translated by)
$15.95
ISBN: 9781947793415
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Published: Tin House Books - March 17th, 2020
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The Fire Next Time (Vintage International) (Paperback)

By James Baldwin
$13.95
ISBN: 9780679744726
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Published: Vintage - December 1st, 1992
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The Return of the Soldier (Modern Library Torchbearers) (Paperback)

By Rebecca West, Michelle Dean (Introduction by)
$14.00
ISBN: 9780812971224
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Published: Modern Library - June 8th, 2004
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Irony and Sarcasm (MIT Press Essential Knowledge) (Paperback)

By Roger Kreuz
$15.95
ISBN: 9780262538268
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Published: MIT Press - February 18th, 2020
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The Mind-Body Problem (MIT Press Essential Knowledge) (Paperback)

By Jonathan Westphal
$15.95
ISBN: 9780262529563
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Published: MIT Press - September 30th, 2016
My Body, My Home: A Radical Guide to Resilience and Belonging Cover Image

My Body, My Home: A Radical Guide to Resilience and Belonging (Diary)

By Victoria Emanuela, Caitlin Metz
$14.99
ISBN: 9781984824677
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Published: Clarkson Potter - October 6th, 2020
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We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice (Paperback)

By Adrienne Maree Brown, Malkia Devich-Cyril (Afterword by)
$10.00
ISBN: 9781849354226
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Published: AK Press - November 17th, 2020
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The Ballad of Black Tom (Paperback)

By Victor LaValle
$13.99
ISBN: 9780765387868
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Published: Tordotcom - February 16th, 2016
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Japanese Ghost Stories (Paperback)

By Lafcadio Hearn, Paul Murray (Editor), Paul Murray (Introduction by)
$16.00
ISBN: 9780241381274
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Published: Penguin Classics - September 24th, 2019
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The Last Days of New Paris: A Novel (Paperback)

By China Miéville
$15.00
ISBN: 9781524797485
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Published: Del Rey - January 16th, 2018