 | American Green: The Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Lawn by Ted Steinberg
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $4.42 Ted Steinberg is an environmental historian at Case Western Reserve Univ. in Cleveland.
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 | Where You Live by Tracy Chapman
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $3.30 Chapman was born in Cleveland. The song 'Change' from this album could've been Obama's campaign theme.
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 | The American Prospect
Buy new: $19.95 Oberlin grad Robert Kuttner is the co-founder and co-editor of 'The American Prospect Magazine.'
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 | Everything for Sale: The Virtues and Limits of Markets by Robert Kuttner
Buy new: $21.37 / Used from: $3.00 One of Oberlin grad Robert Kuttner's many important books.
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 | The Body Hunters: Testing New Drugs on the World's Poorest Patients by Sonia Shah
Buy new: $12.71 / Used from: $7.11 Author Sonia Shah is a graduate of Oberlin in Yellow Springs.
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 | Dignity for All: How to Create a World Without Rankism by Robert W. Fuller
Buy new: $13.95 / Used from: $0.01 Former president of Oberlin, Robert Fuller, has done a lot of important work on hierarchies in our society. I've heard him on the excellent New Dimensions Broadcasting Network.
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 | The Great Wells Of Democracy: The Meaning Of Race In American Life by Manning Marable
Buy new: $18.50 / Used from: $1.84 Much-overlooked social justice activist and scholar Manning Marable was born in Dayton.
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 | The Courage to Survive by Dennis Kucinich
Buy new: $18.94 / Used from: $1.40 Progressive Congressperson Dennis Kucinich represents Cleveland.
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 | Communication Revolution: Critical Junctures and the Future of Media by Robert W. McChesney
Buy new: $6.36 / Used from: $5.08 Media scholar and founder of Freepress.net, Robert McChesney, was born in Cleveland.
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 | How Wikipedia Works: And How You Can Be a Part of It by Phoebe Ayers
Buy new: $21.86 / Used from: $11.76 Co-founder of Wikipedia Larry Sanger received a Ph.D. in philosophy from Ohio State.
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 | Myths of Free Trade: Why American Trade Policy Has Failed, Revised and Updated Edition by Sherrod Brown
Buy new: $11.96 / Used from: $4.98 Liberal politician Sherrod Brown represents Ohio in a way many corrupt politicians won't.
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 | Joe Hill by Gibbs Smith
Buy new: $14.04 / Used from: $3.13 Joe Hill lived in Cleveland for a while.
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 | 20th Century Masters: Best Of Phil Ochs by Phil Ochs
Buy used from: $34.18 Legendary folk singer Phil Ochs attended Ohio State.
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 | Realizing the Impossible: Art Against Authority
Buy new: $17.88 / Used from: $11.86 Radical stencil artist Josh MacPhee graduated from Oberlin.
He is the founder of JustSeeds.org.
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 | Good Though by Utah Phillips
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $10.98 Labor historian, storyteller and folk singer Utah Phillips was born in Cleveland. He often promoted the Industrial Workers of the World during his performances.
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 | The Gits
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $9.96 The vocalist for 'The Gits,' Mia Zapata, graduated from Antioch.
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 | Artmind - The Healing Power of Sacred Art with Alex Grey
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $9.28 Visionary artist Alex Grey was born in Columbus.
He is on the board of the Center for Cognitive Liberty and Ethics.
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 | Selected Poems by Rita Dove
Buy new: $11.86 / Used from: $0.34 Poet Rita Dove was born in Akron.
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 | In Our Own Best Interests: How Defending Human Rights Benefits Us All by William Schulz Director
Buy new: $17.00 / Used from: $0.22 Oberlin graduate Schulz was the director of Amnesty International. The New York Review of Books has said that he 'has done more than anyone in the human rights movement to make issues known in the United States.'
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 | Ben & Jerry's Double Dip : Lead With Your Values and Make Money, Too by Ben Cohen
Buy used from: $0.08 Jerry Greenfield of 'Ben & Jerry's' fame graduated from Oberlin College.
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 | One Hundred Years of Homosexuality: And Other Essays on Greek Love (New Ancient World Series) by David Halperin
Buy new: $34.15 / Used from: $19.66 Halperin graduated from Oberlin College.
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 | Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
Buy new: $9.89 / Used from: $1.79 Baldwin graduated from Bowling Green. He once said, 'People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster.'
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 | The Courage to Create by Rollo May
Buy new: $11.16 / Used from: $2.35 Humanist psychologist Rollo May was born in Ada, Ohio and graduated from Oberlin.
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 | The Good Vibrations Guide to Sex: The Most Complete Sex Manual Ever Written by Cathy Winks
Buy new: $17.13 / Used from: $4.34 Good Vibrations founder Joani Blank graduated from Oberlin.
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 | The Country Between Us by Carolyn Forche
Buy new: $9.60 / Used from: $1.09 Poet Carolyn Forche did graduate study at Bowling Green.
Her admirers include Margaret Atwood and Denise Levertov.
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 | Levi Coffin, Quaker: Breaking the Bonds of Slavery in Ohio and Indiana by Mary Ann Yannessa
Buy new: $13.00 / Used from: $6.65 There are many Quakers working for peace and justice in Ohio. They follow in the tradition of those who created the Underground Railroad to assist escaping slaves.
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 | The Economic Illusion: False Choices Between Prosperity and Social Justice by Robert Kuttner
Buy new: $27.50 / Used from: $0.75 Kuttner graduated from Oberlin.
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 | Autobiography of a Catholic anarchist by Ammon Hennacy
Buy used from: $62.27 Ammon Hennacy was born in Negley, Ohio. He was a vegetarian, pacifist, anarchist, Wobbly, and member of the Catholic Worker Movement among other things.
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 | Life on the Line by Faye Wattleton
Buy new: $27.00 / Used from: $0.06 Faye Wattleton received a nursing degree from Ohio State. She was the youngest person ever to be elected the President of Planned Parenthood. She is currently the President of the Center for the Advancement of Women.
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 | Ecological Engineering and Ecosystem Restoration by William J. Mitsch
Buy new: $117.87 / Used from: $70.00 Wetlands researcher and environmentalist William Mitsch graduated from Ohio State.
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 | Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age by Kevin Boyle
Buy new: $11.52 / Used from: $1.93 Liberal historian Kenvin Boyle is a graduate of Ohio State.
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 | Tinderbox by Stephen Zunes
Buy new: $18.95 / Used from: $0.01 Oberlin grad Stephen Zunes is a prolific progressive author on foreign policy. He is a contributor to 'Foreign Policy in Focus.'
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 | Get Your War On: The Definitive Account of the War on Terror, 2001-2008 by David Rees
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $4.99 Rees is a grad of Oberlin.
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 | Punk Rock and Trailer Parks by Derf
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $11.58 Cartoonist John Backderf, known by readers of alternative weeklies across the country as 'Derf,' graduated from Ohio State.
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 | Stephen Jay Gould: Reflections on His View of Life by Patricia Kelley
Buy new: $29.32 / Used from: $20.99 Antioch graduate and renown scientist Gould said the most influential books he read were 'The Power Elite' by C. Wright Mills and the political writings of Noam Chomsky.
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 | The Richness of Life: The Essential Stephen Jay Gould by Stephen Jay Gould
Buy new: $23.10 / Used from: $13.90 |
 | Meet Coretta Scott King (Civil Rights Leaders) by Melody S. Mis
Buy new: $21.25 / Used from: $19.65 Coretta Scott King graduated from Antioch in Yellow Springs.
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 | Lucy Stone: Speaking Out for Equality by Andrea Moore Kerr
Buy new: $26.00 / Used from: $5.12 Prominent American suffragist Lucy Stone was a graduate of Oberlin. She is the first recorded woman to have kept her last name upon marriage.
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 | Yuban Dark Roast Coffee, Rainforest Alliance Certified, Ground, 11-Ounce Cans (Pack of 12)
Buy new: $50.13 The Rainforest Alliance, which certifies Fair Trade and sustainably grown coffee, was founded by Ohio State grad
Daniel Kats.
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 | The Indelible Alison Bechdel : Confessions, Comix, and Miscellaneous Dykes to Watch Out for by Alison Bechdel
Buy used from: $8.99 Bechdel is a graduate of Oberlin College.
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