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05
Oct

A New Direction for Labor

In this video Inside Government TV interviews author and long-time activist Bill Fletcher, Jr. about his book, co-authored with Fernando Gapasin, Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and a New Path …

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04
Oct

Kobo to Sell UC Press E-Books

University of California Press is pleased to announce that it has reached agreement with Kobo for the sale of its e-books. Through Kobo, readers can now find UC Press e-books such as …

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01
Oct

The Grand Tour

How’s Europe doing? Good question. Steven Hill’s got your answers at Washington Monthly, where he’ll be blogging about his speaking tour through Europe over the next five weeks. Hill, the author of …

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30
Sep

A Narrated Tour of American Modern

Ever wonder about the back story behind Walker Evans’ iconic image of an Alabama tenant farmer’s wife? Or the camera technique Berenice Abbott used to capture such striking images of New York …

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28
Sep

The Other Crime that Dare Not Speak Its Name

Barbara Almond, psychotherapist and author of The Monster Within: The Hidden Side of Motherhood, writes about the common, but little-discussed issue of maternal ambivalence in her most recent blog post for Psychology …

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27
Sep

Banned Book Week and Mark Twain

We all know that Mark Twain was no stranger to having his books banned through his life. Back in July, Newsweek printed this excerpt (which will appear in the second volume of …

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21
Sep

So What’s Wrong with the MDGs?

With this week’s United Nations Summit underway, Dan Smith, author of The State of the Middle East, delves into the problems plaguing the UN’s MDGs, or Millennium Development Goals, on his blog. …

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