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Everyone should read Arguing for Our Lives if they believe there is a connection between how we think and how we act, how we understand democracy and how we experience and struggle for it.\"--Henry Giroux, author of Twilight of the Social: Resurgent Politics in the Age of Disposability (Paradigm, 2012)","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50372305748241,"sku":"CIN0872865738G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51009147896081,"sku":"NIN9780872865730","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52765903552785,"sku":"GOR009216768","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53366866280721,"sku":"CIN0872865738VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0872865738.jpg?v=1750980602"},{"product_id":"writing-dissent-book-robert-jensen-9780820456515","title":"Writing Dissent","description":"Political activists with radical ideas often find themselves shut out of the mainstream news media. \u003ci\u003eWriting Dissent: Taking Radical Ideas from the Margins to the Mainstream\u003c\/i\u003e is designed for activists who want to take on that challenge. 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