As seen on The Daily Show, NPR’s Marketplace, and Fresh Air, the “powerful, chilling tale” (Carol Anderson) of higher education becoming an engine of social inequalityPublished to high acclaim and a f
In an accessible field guide format—replete with illustrations, charts, and other visual materials—Things We Share offers an engaging entrée into a broad range of key topics and conc
The celebrated media advocate's clarion call for new media to serve the public instead of corporate interestsand what's involved in this high-stakes struggle.With the explosive growth of the Internet
Visionary George Monbiot's road map for a global democratic revolution.George Monbiot is known to millions for his newspaper commentaries, which are widely circulated on the Internet. Monbiot's Manife
Named One of the Best Books of the Year by NPRA timely and groundbreaking argument that all Americans must grapple with Latinos' dynamic racial identity—because it impacts everything we think we know
A tenth-anniversary edition of the iconic bestseller--"one of the most influential books of the past decade," according to the Chronicle of Higher Education--with a new preface by the author Seldom do
A tenth-anniversary edition of the iconic bestseller--"one of the most influential books of the past decade," according to the Chronicle of Higher Education--with a new preface by the authorSeldom doe
A groundbreaking expos about the alarming use of rap lyrics as criminal evidence to convict and incarcerate young men of color Should Johnny Cash have been charged with murder after he sang, "I shot
A masterful narrative—with echoes of Evicted and The Color of Law—that brings to life the structures, policies, and beliefs that divide usDeeply reported and deftly told, The Lines Between
In the epic tradition of Eyes on the Prize and with the cultural significance of John Lewis’s March trilogy, an ambitious and harrowing account of the devoted black educators who battled Souther
The acclaimed exploration of how public education can cultivate innovators—with a foreword by Russlynn Ali, a leading advocate for remaking schoolsDime-a-dozen ideas for reforming education seem
An unforgettable chronicle of the year the brilliant novelist and memoirist, long favored for the Nobel Prize, was thrown in a Kenyan jail without chargeWrestling with the Devil, Ngũg&#
Timely hot topic: With Trump’s appointment of Betsy DeVos, this topic will be front and center for media, parent, educators, and policymakers. Also, the book draws important connections for those seek
Some of us have been here before. Many people living today in America and around the world have direct experience with countries where an autocrat has seized control, changing everything from the teno
With the world’s attention focused on climate change and terrorism, we are in danger of taking our eyes off the nuclear threat. But rising tensions between Russia and NATO, proxy wars erupting in Syri
Cobalt Blue is a tale of rapturous love and fierce heartbreak told with tenderness and unsparing clarity. Brother and sister Tanay and Anuja both fall in love with the same man, an artist lodging in t
One morning in the dead of winter, during the darkest years of World War II, three German soldiers head out into the frozen Polish countryside. They have been charged by their commanders with tracking
A centuries-old story with remarkable contemporary resonance, Blood and Faith is celebrated journalist Matthew Carr’s riveting and ?richly detailed” (Choice) chronicle of what was, by 1614, the larges
Thank You for Having Me includes the very best of Bill Moyers’s conversations from the celebrated weekly PBS broadcast Bill Moyers Journal, with luminaries ranging from The Wire creator David S
On a farm north of San Francisco, the celebrated writer Alice Walker diligently cares for a flock of chickens. The Chicken Chronicles captures her blossoming relationship with her chickens over the m
The role of the business press in the current financial crisis strikes at the heart of the heated debate about the media’s role as guardians of our democratic society. With contributions from
One of the Most Popular Attractions in Philadelphia's world-famous Mutter Museum is the Chevalier Jackson Foreign Body Collection: a beguiling set of drawers filled with thousands of items that had b
Lives We Carry with Us gathers together for the first time a diverse cross section of Coles’s profiles, originally published in our premier magazines over the span of five decades but never before col
A decade after its original publication, here is a new edition of The Lexicon of Labor---filled with dozens of fresh and updated terms for a new generation of readers. With descriptions of more than f
In February of 2008, amid the looming global financial crisis, President Nicolas Sarkozy of France asked Nobel Prize–winning economists Joseph Stiglitz and Amartya Sen, along with the distingui
Kreisler (executive director, Institute of International Studies, U. of California at Berkeley) presents interviews with 20 prominent intellectual and political figures, the central topical focus of w
In a book hailed by Publishers Weekly as a ?passionate plea for access to water activism,” Blue Covenant addresses an environmental crisis that?together with global warming?poses one of the gravest th
In Prison Profiteers, co-editors Tara Herivel and Paul Wright "follow the money to an astonishing constellation of prison administrators and politicians working in collusion with private parties to ma
A collection of comics featuring Asian American superheroes by Asian American artists is organized by such themes as girl power and ordinary heroes with supernatural powers.
Radical Acts brings together four politically charged plays, opening with Duberman's first production, In White America, a depiction of the black struggle for freedom and human rights. Next, Mother Ea
Lee (communication, William Paterson U., Wayne, New Jersey) presents a compilation of 27 interviews conducted with Asian Americans from a range of occupations--students, politicians, a lawyer, an educ
Edited by and with textual discussion by Buhle (Brown U.), this volume describes the contribution of Jews to the American comic art form. From a 1911 depiction of Jewish textile workers "between Phara
In the 1960s, prizewinning writer Philip Lopate went into an urban school to teach poetry and became a part of the school community.Being with Children, first published in 1975 but out of print for ma
With a combination of technological savvy, irreverent humor, and acerbic critique, a handful of media personalities, blogs, outlets, and politically based organizations - from The Dnion to Jon Stewar
Which acts by educators are "racist" and which are "antiracist"? How can an educator constructively discuss complex issues of race with students and colleagues? In Everyday Antiracism, leading educato
The Studs Terkel Interviews: Film and Theater collects the Pulitzer Prize–winning oral historian’s remarkable conversations with some of the greatest luminaries of film and theater. Originally publish
Now in paperback, The Skin That We Speak takes the discussion of language in the classroom beyond the highly charged war of idioms and presents today’s teachers with a thoughtful exploration of the va
Running a 1990s Cape Town travel agency in spite of her private hatred of traveling, Marion shares a complex relationship with an African employee and eschews national politics, until the exposures of
