How innovative judges and attorneys are transforming American courts. Public confidence in American criminal courts is at an all-time low. Victims, communities, and even offenders view courts as unab
An entirely fresh approach to ending the high school dropout crisis is revealed in this groundbreaking chronicle of unprecedented transformation in a city notorious for its “failing schools&rdqu
How American media are failing our democracy, by the authors Bill Moyers calls "the Paul Revere and Tom Paine of our time.""As this book makes clear, the problem is deeper than the administration or
A call to arms against the increasingly hostile climate of public education, hailed by Bill Ayers as "a wise and measured handbook for the struggle ahead." In Stupidity and Tears, renowned educator a
A collection of essays explore the educator's views on teaching, learning, and the value of public education, includes thoughts on learning refusal, and the value of optimism
Longlisted for the 2021 International Booker PrizeA dazzling, genre-defying novel in verse from the author Delia Owens says “tackles the absurdities, injustices, and corruption of a continent”Ngũgĩ wa
“A lively encounter with identity and American military history in Okinawa. Night in the American Village is by turns intellectual, hip, and sexy. I admire it for its ferocity, style, and vigor.
Now adapted for young readers ages 12 through 18, the national bestseller that makes real American history come alive in all of its conflict, drama, and complexityLies My Teacher Told Me is one of the
Twenty years after Columbine, a leading anti-gun activist offers a radical argument for the anti-gun movement our country desperately needsNinety-two people die from guns in America every single day.
What We Talk About When We Talk About Rape is brilliant, frank, empowering, and urgently necessary. Sohaila Abdulali has created a powerful tool for examining rape culture and language on the in
How a tiny Pacific archipelago is producing more players—from Troy Polamalu to Marcus Mariota—for the NFL than anywhere else in the world, by an award-winning sports historianFootball is a
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
A groundbreaking collection based on oral histories that brilliantly plumb the leadership of African American women in the twentieth-century fight for civil rights—many nearly lost to history&md
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&#
In a work that has rapidly become "imperative reading" (Lisa Delpit) on education, gender, and juvenile justice, Monique W. Morris (Black Stats, Too Beautiful for Words) chronicles the experiences of
World-class, prize-winning novelist: Echenoz is a winner of the prestigious Prix Goncourt for I’m Gone and a literary luminary in France. His previous novels, including Ravel, Running, 1914, and Light
In addition to exposing racially biased policing, the Justice Department’s Ferguson Report exposed to the world a system of fines and fees levied for minor crimes in Ferguson, Missouri, that, when the
Most Americans believe that slavery was a creature of the South, and that Northern states and territories provided stops on the Underground Railroad for fugitive slaves on their way to Canada. In this
How Bill de Blasio’s mayoral victory triggered a seismic shift in the nation’s urban political landscape?and what it portends for our cities in the futureIn November 2013, a little-known progressive s
The 2016 election year may be remembered as a year to forget, but for American women in politics and feminists alike it was unforgettably distressing—a flash point illuminating both the true state of
With presidential candidate Donald Trump calling for a complete ban on Muslims entering the United States, surveillance against mosques, and a database for all Muslims living in the country, anti-immi
In this ?impassioned plea for human dignity” (Kirkus Reviews) Jonathan Simon?called ?one of the outstanding criminologists of his generation” by Nikolas Rose of the London School of Economics?charts a
"Most Americans think that our country has done quite a lot to protect women and ensure gender equity in the workplace. After all, we have banned discrimination against women, required equal pay for e
Victory may sometimes look like a sudden revolution when, in truth, it rests on years of struggle. The June 2015 decision inObergefell v. Hodges is a sweeping victory for the freedom to marry, but it
Down for the Count explores in an accessible, engaging style the tawdry continuing history of votes bought, stolen, suppressed, lost, miscounted, thrown into rivers, and litigated up to the Supreme Co
Born in St. Kitts and brought up in the UK, bestselling author Caryl Phillips has written about and explored the experience of migration for more than thirty years through his spellbinding and award-w
Hailed by renowned educator Deborah Meier as ?a rare and special pleasure to read,” Kindergarten explores a year in the life of a kindergarten classroom through the eyes of the gifted veteran teacher
"In response to mounting concerns about the future of the press, an outpouring of lively debate and proposals for alternative models of journalism has exploded across journals of opinion, the blogosph
A Bomb in Every Issue recounts the rise and fall of Ramparts magazine, which, for nearly a decade in the 1960s, was the nation’s premier leftist publication, combining radical content, sophisticated d
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
In the early days of television, corporate executives, philanthropists, and social reformers hoped to use the new medium to enforce morality and safeguard the free world against the specters of commun
This authoritative entry in the acclaimed Great Expectations series makes it easy for parents to give their babies and toddlers the best, most wholesome and natural food possible.The way a baby is nur
Launched in 1962 as "a forum for the mature American Catholic," Ramparts magazine went on to become the iconic magazine of the 1960s left, publishing writings by such figures as Eldridge Cleaver, Che
A follow-up to Consuming Kids presents an argument for the value of imaginary and creative play in both human development and corporate profit, sharing case stories that challenge popular beliefs abou
As the national campaign manager for Ralph Nader's historic runs for president in 2000 and 2004, Theresa Amato had a rare ringside role in two of the most hotly contested presidential elections this
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 this poignant, powerful volume, the influential Jewish thinker and critic Marc H. Ellis takes on the hard moral questions about Jewish support for the state of Israel. Reviewing the historical reco
In the 1960s, the hopes for a blossoming progressive Catholicism awakened by the Second Vatican Council were cut short by conservative opposition and the rightward agendas of the previous and current
An account of the assassination of Tsar Alexander II by Russian revolutionaries in 1881 evaluates the event's links to worldwide modern-day terrorist practices, in a historical survey that argues that
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
