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I'm Black When I'm Singing, I'm Blue When I Ain't and Other Plays, Paperback by Sonia Sanchez (Author), Jacqueline Wood (Editor)

 

Aboriginal Australians: A History Since 1788 Paperback by Richard Broome (Author)

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History) Hardcover by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz (Author) The first history of the United States told from the perspective of indigenous peoples

Black macho and the myth of the superwoman by Michele Wallace (1979)

Father Damien, The Lands of: Kalaupapa, Molokai, Hawaii Hardcover - August 1, 1998 by James H. Brocker (Author) Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen by Liliuokalani (Oct 1, 1991)

Las criadas de La Habana / The Maids of Havana (Spanish Edition) [Paperback] Sarduy Perez (Author)

Like Water for Chocolate (Anchor 1995) by Laura Esquivel (Author)

Como agua para chocolate (Vintage Espanol) (Spanish Edition) (Spanish) 2001 by Laura Esquivel (Author)

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Crossing Press Feminist Series) by Audre Lorde (Author), Cheryl Clarke (Foreword)
The Black Calhouns: From Civil War to Civil Rights With One African American Family by Gail Lument Buckley--Lena Horne's daughter (Author)

The Stories That Shape Us: Contemporary Women Write about the West: An Anthology Hardcover by Page Lambert (Author), Teresa Jordan (Editor), James R. Hepworth (Editor)

On Strike and on Film: Mexican American Families and Blacklisted Filmmakers in Cold War America by Ellen R. Baker

Red, White, and Black: The Peoples of Early North America (5th Edition) by Gary B. Nash (Nov 24, 2005)

Storming Caesar's Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty by Annelise Orleck (Author)

When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America Paperback by Paula J. Giddings (Author)

My Place (An Australian Classic) by Sally Morgan (Apr 1, 2010)

 

Lesbians in Academia: Degrees of Freedom by Beth Mintz (Editor), Esther D. Rothblum (Editor)

Death in a Tenured Position by Amanda Cross (Kate Fansler Novels) Mass Market Paperback

Occupying the Academy: Just How Important Is Diversity Work in Higher Education? by Christine Clark (Editor), Kenneth Fasching-Varner (Editor), Mark Brimhall-Vargas (Editor) by Amanda Cross (Author)

Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia Paperback by Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs (Editor), Yolanda Flores Niemann (Editor), Carmen G. Gonzalez (Editor), Angela P. Harris (Editor) & 3 more

Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom (Harvest in Translation) by Bell Hooks (Sep 14, 1994)

We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting for: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness by Alice Walker (Nov 21, 2007)

 

Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself by Melody Beattie (Sep 1, 1986)

The New Codependency: Help and Guidance for Today's Generation by Melody Beattie

 

 

A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present [Paperback] by Howard Zinn (Author)

A People's History of Poverty in America (New Press People's History) [Hardcover] by Stephen Pimpare (Author)

Maid to Order in Hong Kong: An Ethnography of Filipina Workers by Nicole Constable (Author)

Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq by Stephen Kinzer (2007)

Social State: Thoughts, Stats and Stories about the State of Social Media in 2013 by Esteban Contreras (2013)

The Arms of Krupp 1587 (1968) by William Manchester (Author)

The Bill Gates Story: The Computer Genius Who Changed the World (Great Heroes) by Studio Cheongbi (2009)

The Microsoft File: The Secret Case Against Bill Gates (1998) By Wendy Goldman Rohm

The Google Story: For Google's 10th Birthday by David A. Vise (2008)

The Green Felt Jungle by ed reid (Author) (a story of Las Vegas)

The Perfect Store: Inside eBay by Adam Cohen (2008)

 

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared M. Diamond (Author)

The Naked Ape: A Zoologist's Study of the Human Animal by Desmond Morris (1999)

 

Beloved Women: The Political Lives of Ladonna Harris and Wilma Mankiller by Sarah Eppler Janda

How the World Works (Real Story (Soft Skull Press)) by Noam Chomsky (Author), Arthur Naiman (Editor), David Barsamian

 

Factory Daughters: Gender, Household Dynamics, and Rural Industrialization in Java by Diane Lauren Wolf (Author)

For the Public Good: Forced Sterilization and the Fight for Compensation by Belle Boggs (Author), The New New South (Editor) H Genders in Production:

Juki Girls, Good Girls: Gender and Cultural Politics in Sri Lanka's Global Garment Industry by Caitrin Lynch (Author)

Making Workers in Mexico's Global Factories by Leslie Salzinger (Author)

High Tech and High Heels in the Global Economy: Women, Work, and Pink-Collar Identities in the Caribbean [Paperback] Carla Freeman (Author)

Rats, Lice and History (Social Science Classics Series) by Hans Zinsser and Gerald N. Grob (2007)

Servants of Globalization: Women, Migration, and Domestic Work [Paperback] Rhacel Salazar Parrenas (Author)

The Constructive Extermination of Women of Color: Consequences of Perpetual Socio-Economic Marginalization by Suzanne Brooks, www.womenofcolorday.com Sacramento Public Library - I Street Press (2011)

 

Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd Is Driving the Future of Business by Jeff Howe

Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman by Yvon Chouinard 2006

Madam C. J. Walker: Building a Business Empire, Penny Colman (Author)

The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon Hardcover by Brad Stone

Windmill Networking: Understanding, Leveraging & Maximizing LinkedIn: An Unofficial, Step-by-Step Guide to Creating by Neal Schaffer (2009)

Working the Night Shift: Women in India's Call Center Industry by Reena Patel (Author)

 

Craigslist: Company and Its Founder (Technology Pioneers) by Susan M. Freese

Social State: Thoughts, Stats and Stories about the State of Social Media in 2013 by Esteban Contreras (2013)

The Bill Gates Story: The Computer Genius Who Changed the World (Great Heroes) by Studio Cheongbi (2009)

The Microsoft File: The Secret Case Against Bill Gates 1998 by Wendy Goldman Rohm

The Google Story: For Google's 10th Birthday by David A. Vise (2008)

The Perfect Store: Inside eBay by Adam Cohen (2008)