“The radical underground environmental movement Earth First! emerged in response to rapid commercial development of the American wilderness. Founded by Dave Foreman and conservationist friends in the summer of 1980, Earth First! quickly became a provocative counterculture that ultimately hoped for the fall of industrial civilization… By the close of the decade, its proponents numbered in the thousands. Their insistence that there be no compromise in defense of Mother Earth meant that members became known for insurgent tactics such as arson, tree spiking and disabling heavy road equipment… By the late 1980s, Earth First! was the subject of a major FBI investigation. Foreman’s eventual denunciation of civil disobedience caused an inner split. One camp advocated strict biocentrism (an emphasis on maintaining the Earth’s full complement of species) and the other focused on environmental and social-justice issues. Author Lee was successful in gaining extraordinary access to information about the movement, as well as interviews with its members.”

Publisher: Syracuse University
Paperback: 200 pages

“Our understanding of lycanthropy is limited by our association of it with contemporary portrayals of werewolves in horror films and gothic literature. No rational person today believes that a human being can literally be metamorphosed into a wolf, therefore, in the absence of an historical context, the study of werewolves can appear to be a wayward pursuit of the perversely irrational and the sensational. This reader provides the historical context. Drawing on primary sources, it is a comprehensive survey of all aspects of lycanthropy, with a focus on the medieval and Renaissance periods.”

Publisher: Syracuse University
Paperback: 337 pages

“Rather than dwelling on the familiar impracticality and unfairness of drug laws, Szasz demonstrates the deleterious effects of prescription laws, which place people under lifelong medical supervision. By stressing the consequences of the central aim of U.S. drug prohibitions—protecting the public from harming themselves by self-medication—he emphasizes that a free society cannot endure if the state treats adults as truant children and if its citizens reject the values of self-discipline and personal responsibility.”

Publisher: Syracuse University
Paperback: 229 pages

“A vivid re-creation of the desolation of black communities during World War II examining the nationwide conditions that led up to the Harlem riots of 1943.”

Publisher: Syracuse University
Hardback: 277 pages
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“The Nation of Islam as a millenarian movement underwent a fateful transformation when its prophecies concerning the end failed. The result was the transformation of the Nation, after the death of Elijah Muhammad, into two quite different entities. The first is the American Muslim Mission… led by Imam Wallace D. Muhammad… the second is the reconstituted Nation of Islam under the guidance of the controversial Minister Louis Farrakhan… a history of the Nation of Islam movement from its beginnings early in this century to 1986.”

Publisher: Syracuse University
Paperback: 200 pages