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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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This is the highly anticipated second novel by Angie Thomas, the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling, award-winning The Hate U Give. Sixteen-year-old Bri wants to be one of the greatest rappers of all time. Or at least win her first battle. As the daughter of an underground hip hop legend who died right before he hit big, Bris got massive shoes to fill. But its hard to get your come up when youre labeled a hoodlum at school, and your fridge...
Author
Publisher
Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A vital, necessary playbook for navigating and defending free speech today by the CEO of PEN America, Dare To Speak provides a pathway for promoting free expression while also cultivating a more inclusive public culture. Online trolls and fascist chat groups. Controversies over campus lectures. Cancel culture versus censorship. The daily hazards and debates surrounding free speech dominate headlines and fuel social media storms. In an era where one...
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Publisher
Bold Type Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
A hard-hitting expose that shines a light on the powerful conservative forces that have waged a multi-decade battle to hijack the meaning of free speech--and how we can reclaim it. There's a critical debate taking place over one of our most treasured rights: free speech. We argue about whether it's at risk, whether college students fear it, whether neo-Nazis deserve it, and whether the government is adequately upholding it. But as P. E. Moskowitz...
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Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Never in human history was there such a chance for freedom of expression. If we have Internet access, any one of us can publish almost anything we like and potentially reach an audience of millions. Never was there a time when the evils of unlimited speech flowed so easily across frontiers: violent intimidation, gross violations of privacy, tidal waves of abuse. A pastor burns a Koran in Florida and UN officials die in Afghanistan. Drawing on a...
6) Dangerous
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Publisher
Dangerous Books/Milo Worldwide LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The liberal media machine did everything they could to keep this book out of your hands. Now, finally, DANGEROUS, the most controversial book of the decade, is tearing down safe spaces everywhere.
Publisher
HarperStudio
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
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From the Publisher: Published in conjunction with the PEN American Center, Burn This Book is a powerful collection of essays that explore the meaning of censorship and the power of literature to inform the way we see the world, and ourselves.
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Publisher
Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Examines how free speech in the United States has been corrupted by the politically powerful and how the contemporary landscape of social media and social polarization have eroded the safeguards built into the Constitution to protect speech.
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Language
English
Description
The conventional wisdom is that we need more civility and fewer arguments. If you have a controversial option, keep it to yourself. Tomi Lahren could not disagree more. It's a trick. The same people whining about tone will call you names and applaud those who threaten you. We don't need safe spaces, and you shouldn't be patient and wait out the bullying. In this book, Lahren encourages all Americans, especially women, to find their voice and speak...
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Language
English
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Dave Rubin launched his political talk show The Rubin Report in 2015 as a meeting ground for free thinkers who realize that partisan politics is a dead end. He hosts people he both agrees and disagrees with--including those who have been dismissed, deplatformed, and despised--taking on the most controversial issues of our day. As a result, he's become a voice of reason in a time of madness. Now, Rubin gives you the tools you need to think for yourself...
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Language
English
Description
"Comedian Kat Timpf shares how humor has kept her going during the hardest times of her life, and confronts the cancel culture that threatens modern comedy"--
"What happens when we can’t joke about some of the most important stuff in life? In a 2019 study, 40% of people reported censoring themselves out of fear that voicing their views would alienate them from the people they care about most. Those people should probably not read this book in...
Author
Publisher
Broadside Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Rand Paul, U.S. senator for Kentucky and America's most prominent libertarian, makes a case against socialist ideology, showing the impact of its deadly legacy and the threat of its new rise in America"--
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Series
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Hate explains the badly misunderstood First Amendment approach toward hateful speech, which overlaps substantially with international human rights principles. It shows that this approach is more effective than censorship in promoting all the essential values at stake: free speech, democracy, equality, dignity, diversity, and inclusivity. Under both US and international human rights law, government may punish hateful speech that directly causes specific...
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Publisher
Post Hill Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Political correctness has ripped through America, turning life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness into lifelessness, suppression and the pursuit of mediocrity. In support of political correctness, sneering columnists are seeking out opinions they don t like and punishing them, speakers are being canceled on college campuses and people are being vilified for exercising their religious liberty. Meanwhile, Europe is in its death throes, completely...
Author
Publisher
Truth to Power, an imprint of Steerforth Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"How Free Speech Saved Democracy is a revealing reminder that First Amendment rights have often been curtailed in efforts to block progress, and that current measures to reduce hurtful language and to end hate speech could backfire on those who promote them. To those who see free speech as a threat to democracy, Finan offers engaging evidence from a long and sometimes challenging history of free speech in America to show how free speech has been essential...
Author
Publisher
ReferencePoint Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"According to the American Library Association (ALA), there were more attempts to ban books in 2021 than at any time since the group began tracking three decades earlier. The latest, unprecedented wave of book banning is driven mainly by conservative parents and politicians, who are also behind extreme new censorship laws in many states that restrict what teachers and students can read and discuss in the classroom. Free speech defenders say the laws...
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Publisher
Regnery Publishing
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Free speech and freedom of conscience have long been core American values. Yet a growing intolerance from the left side of the political spectrum is threatening Americans' ability to freely express beliefs without fear of retaliation. USA Today columnist and Fox News contributor Kirsten Powers calls it "The Silencing." Powers chronicles this forced march toward conformity in an expose; of the illiberal tactics deployed to shut down debate on some...
Author
Series
Word$ volume 2
Publisher
Harlequin Teen
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
After taking down Silas Rog and freeing the city from his grasp, Speth journeys outside the dome in search of her parents, who were sold into indentured servitude years earlier.
Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
"1920, socialist leader Eugene V. Debs ran for president while serving a ten-year jail term for speaking against America's role In World War I. Though many called Debs a traitor, others praised him as a prisoner of conscience, a martyr to the cause of free speech. Nearly a million Americans agreed, voting for a man whom the government had branded an enemy to his country." "In this narrative, Ernest Freeberg shows that the campaign to send Debs from...
Author
Publisher
Encounter Books
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
A former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State and currently a Distinguished Fellow at the Heritage Foundation, Kim R. Holmes surveys the state of liberalism in America today and finds that it is becoming its opposite—illiberalism—abandoning the precepts of open-mindedness and respect for individual rights, liberties, and the rule of law upon which the country was founded, and becoming instead an intolerant, rigidly dogmatic ideology that abhors dissent...
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