Grassroots: A Field Guide for Feminist Activism

10 best books like Grassroots: A Field Guide for Feminist Activism (Jennifer Baumgardner): This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate, Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care, All About Love: New Visions, The Boy Crisis: Why Our Boys Are Struggling and What We Can Do about It, Yes Yes Yes: Australia’s Journey to Marriage Equality, Going Postal: More than yes or no, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference, See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Violence

This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
AuthorNaomi Klein
ISBN1451697384
Forget everything you think you know about global warming. It's not about carbon – it's about capitalism. The good news is that we can seize this crisis to transform our failed economic system and build something radically better.

In her most provocative book yet, Naomi Klein, author of...
Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions
AuthorValeria Luiselli
ISBN1566894956
Structured around the forty questions Luiselli translates and asks undocumented Latin-American children facing deportation, Tell Me How It Ends (an expansion of her 2016 Freeman's essay of the same name) humanizes these young migrants and highlights the contradiction of the idea of America as...
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
AuthorBenjamin Franklin
ISBN0743255062
"The first book to belong permanently to literature. It created a man."
-- From the Introduction Few men could compare to Benjamin Franklin. Virtually self-taught, he excelled as an athlete, a man of letters, a printer, a scientist, a wit, an inventor, an editor, and a writer, and he was probably...
The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care
AuthorT.R. Reid
ISBN1594202346
In The Healing of America, New York Times bestselling author T. R. Reid shows how all the other industrialized democracies have achieved something the United States can’t seem to do: provide health care for everybody at a reasonable cost.

In his global quest to find a possible prescription,...
All About Love: New Visions
Authorbell hooks
ISBN0688168442
All About Love offers radical new ways to think about love by showing its interconnectedness in our private and public lives. In eleven concise chapters, hooks explains how our everyday notions of what it means to give and receive love often fail us, and how these ideals are established in early childhood....
The Boy Crisis: Why Our Boys Are Struggling and What We Can Do about It
AuthorWarren Farrell
ISBN1942952716
What is the boy crisis?

It's a crisis of education.
For the first time in American history, our sons will have less education than their dads.

It's a crisis of mental health.
As boys become young men, their suicide rates go from equal to girls to six times that of young women.

It's...
Yes Yes Yes: Australia’s Journey to Marriage Equality
AuthorAlex Greenwich
A compelling, moving account of the long journey to marriage equality in Australia.

Yes Yes Yes, written by two advocates intimately involved in the struggle for marriage equality, reveals the untold story of how a grassroots movement won hearts and minds and transformed a country. From...
Going Postal: More than yes or no
AuthorQuinn Eades
Throughout 2017 the queer and gender-diverse community of Australia undertook an incredible campaign of everyday activism around Marriage Equality. Individuals and collectives shared personal stories with their networks - from social media to workplace to school playground. Tears and rage...
No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
AuthorGreta Thunberg
The groundbreaking speeches of Greta Thunberg, the young climate activist who has become the voice of a generation, including her historic address to the United Nations

In August 2018 a fifteen-year-old Swedish girl, Greta Thunberg, decided not to go to school one day in order to protest...
See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Violence
AuthorJess Hill
ISBN1760641405
At the office of Safe Steps, Victoria’s dedicated 24/7 family violence response call centre, phone counsellors receive a call every three minutes. Many women are repeat callers: on average, they will go back to an abusive partner eight times before leaving for good.

‘You must get so frustrated...
Growing Up Queer in Australia
AuthorBenjamin Law
ISBN1760640867
‘No amount of YouTube videos and queer think pieces prepared me for this moment.’
‘The mantle of “queer migrant” compelled me to keep going – to go further.’
‘I never “came out” to my parents. I felt I owed them no explanation.’
‘All I heard from the pulpit were...
How Powerful We Are: Behind the scenes with one of Australia's leading activists
AuthorSally Rugg
'Incisive, blistering and tender. Sally is one of our most valiant warriors.' - Clementine Ford, author of FIGHT LIKE A GIRL and BOYS WILL BE BOYS'Proof that the personal is always political - and love really can save the world.' - Jamila Rizvi, author of NOT JUST LUCKY'Rugg's passion and insight make...
The Woman Destroyed
AuthorSimone de Beauvoir
Rich and powerful writing in these three novellas. I will definitely read more of this author.

The first novella, The Age of Discretion, centers around the aging process and the end of careers of both husband and wife. In addition, there’s the bitter disappointment the woman feels after...
Being Salmon, Being Human: Encountering the Wild in Us and Us in the Wild
AuthorMartin Lee Mueller
ISBN1603587454
Nautilus Award Silver Medal Winner, Ecology & Environment

In search of a new story for our place on earth

Being Salmon, Being Human examines Western culture's tragic alienation from nature by focusing on the relationship between people and salmon--weaving together key narratives...
The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality
AuthorBhaskar Sunkara
ISBN1541617398
From one of the most prominent voices on the American Left, a galvanizing argument for why we need socialism in the United States today
With the stunning popularity of Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Americans are embracing the class politics of socialism. But what, exactly, is...
Fever Dream
AuthorDouglas Preston
ISBN0446554960
Yesterday, Special Agent Pendergast still mourned the loss of his beloved wife, Helen, who died in a tragic accident in Africa twelve years ago. Today, he discovers she was murdered. Tomorrow, he will learn her most guarded secrets, leaving him to wonder: Who was the woman I married? Why was she murdered?...
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