GET A GRIP Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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'Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did & it never will' - Frederick Douglass #JoinAUnion #GTTO Views are mine & NOT my employer's.
Good Grief: Embracing Life at a Time of Death
Catherine MayerGET A GRIP@catherine_mayer @TIME Good grief. Wish I could say I was surprised.
Paperback, 2022
$17.99Member price:$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Oxford Bookworms Library: Huckleberry Finn: Level 2: 700-Word Vocabularylevel 2
Mark TwainGET A GRIPWhile Nel favours this approach, he also acknowledges that refusing to alter texts may still be troubling for segments of the readership (for example, Black children reading editions of Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn in which the N-word has not been removed).
Paperback, 2007
$11.00Member price:$11.00 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)
The Politics of Fear: The Shameless Normalization of Far-Right Discourse
Ruth WodakGET A GRIPTo counter far-right rhetoric & policies we must first understand them. In 'The Politics of Fear: The Shameless Normalization of Far-Right Discourse', Ruth Wodak explains the linguistic strategies used by populist nationalists in relation to immigration. https://t.co/BX7XP2khHC
Paperback, 2020
$48.00Member price:$45.60 + Free shipping5% off
The Great Reset: And the War for the World
Alex JonesGET A GRIPThe Great Reset conspiracy theory was amplified by rightwing commentators such as Ben Shapiro, Tucker Carlson and Alex Jones who said that a global elite was using the pandemic to enforce radical policy. https://t.co/f1jEEGYGRY
Hardcover, 2022
$32.50Member price:$16.25 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Death of the Left: Why We Must Begin from the Beginning Again
Simon WinlowGET A GRIPHaving said this, while making some valid points, 'The Death of the Left' by Simon Winlow & Steve Hall is riddled with half-truths, misunderstandings, misleading & ill-informed provocations, negativity, pessimism, & character assassinations. https://t.co/urIMFldmp0
Paperback, 2022
$19.95Member price:$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
1984: 75th Anniversary
George OrwellGET A GRIP"Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship." George Orwell, 1984 #downingstreetparty
Paperback, Mass Market, 1950
$12.00Member price:$6.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Schooling in a Democracy: Returning Education to the Public Service
Richard RiddellGET A GRIP#Ofsted: The regime we have but might not want or need. Its "role & place needs curtailing & changing. It may need to be replaced by something completely different, such as a peer review-based system." - Richard Riddell, (Schooling in a Democracy). https://t.co/kmb7FA4jDZ
Paperback, 2023
$38.95Member price:$19.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Fire Next Time
James BaldwinGET A GRIP"A civilization is not destroyed by wicked people; it is not necessary that people be wicked, but only that they be spineless." -James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time (1963) https://t.co/puJReYMwK0
Paperback, 1992
$14.00Member price:$7.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Capitalism: A Conversation in Critical Theory
Nancy FraserGET A GRIP“Cannibal Capitalism” is eroding society’s basic structures. Nancy Fraser talks about work, debt, and a breakdown of shared meaning. https://t.co/QVPCsS2jdz
Hardcover, 2018
$69.95Member price:$66.45 + Free shipping5% off
Social Media and Hate
Shakuntala BanajiGET A GRIPBook Review of 'Social Media and Hate', by Shakuntala Banaji and Ramnath Bhat, London: Routledge, 2022. https://t.co/cF5QLVuyvz
Hardcover, 2021
$68.99Member price:$65.54 + Free shipping5% off