On the rooftop of a theater in an African port, a ten-year-old boy lies slowly dying of bullet wounds. He is Nelio, a leader of street kids, rumored to be a healer and a prophet, and possessed of a s
A bestselling art historian and a free speech advocate explore subtle new forms of censorship in the art world and beyond."In private, museum people have told me that self-censorship is indeed the or
A forceful argument for the immediate withdrawal of troops from Iraq.Howard Zinn's book Vietnam: The Logic of Withdrawal, though it appeared five years before the United States eventually abandoned th
In this revised edition of his seminal book on race, class, and the criminal justice system, Marc Mauer, executive director of one of the United States' leading criminal justice reform organizati
A bestselling art historian and a free speech advocate explore subtle new forms of censorship in the art world and beyond."In private, museum people have told me that self-censorship is indeed the or
Tracing the history of government intrusions on Constitutional rights in response to threats from abroad, Cole and Dempsey warn that a society in which civil liberties are sacrificed in the name of na
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
Tangiers, the late 1950s. Two teenagers, Mamed and Ali, strike up an intense friendship that will last a lifetime. But lurking just beneath the surface is a deep, unspoken jealousy in danger of destr
The prize-winning book of advice about racism from the bestselling author to his daughter, introduced by Bill Cosby.When Tahar Ben Jelloun took his ten-year-old daughter to a street protest against a
Leading American scholars and activists explore the question our leaders have been working overtime to ignore. "The middle class and working poor are told that what's happening to them is the consequ
An indispensable introduction to the company that will define the twenty-first century economy.Edited by one of the nation's preeminent labor historians, this book marks an ambitious effort to dissec
"[A] well-researched, informative book, one of the best on the subject." The Washington PostMatthew Yeomans begins his investigation into the role of oil in America by trying to spend a day without o
The renowned activist's impassioned look at gangs and youth violence in Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York.A gripping and honest account of the culture of gangs, Street Wars is essential reading for
"Fresh, nuanced and insightful .[A] thoughtful, readable contribution to the immigration debates. Houston ChronicleSpanning four continents and several years in the lives of seven immigrant families,
Inspired by a photograph of the playwright Bertolt Brecht and an unknown young woman, Jacques-Pierre Amette constructs a tale of ambition and betrayal, set during the final years of the greatest play
Voices from Israel and the Occupied Territories, as well as around the world, 3xplore the intersection of architecture and politics Called a "security fence" by the Israeli government and the "aparth
"A startling contrast to the other literature on the Civil War." Howard ZinnMoving beyond presidents and generals, A People's History of the Civil War tells a new and powerful story of America's most
James Marcus, hired as the fifty-fifth employee by Amazon.com in 1996, looks back a decade later at the ecstatic rise, dramatic fall, and remarkable comeback of the consummate symbol of late 1990s' A
Here is the definitive portrait of the ultimate power broker by “the toughest, most in-your-face investigative reporter in the U.S.A.” (Greg Palast). Dick Cheney sets energy policy. He gui
In 1987, a small Argentine publishing house published a document that had recently been found in a government archive in Buenos Aires. The document was called "Mi mensaje," or "My Message," and appea
Today's leading thinkers explore the most incendiary human rights issue of our time. "No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment."Universal Declara
A classic account of the first revolution of the twentieth century, which set the stage for a century of socialist revolt. Adolfo Gilly's A People's History of the Mexican Revolution is the definitiv
Never-before-heard recordings of secretly taped oval office conversations with eight US presidents. The President doesn't know the position of the administration so you can't know it.President Lyndon
Journalist Heather Rogers guides us through the grisly, oddly fascinating underworld of trash. Excavating the history of rubbish handling from the 1800s - an era of garbage-grazing urban hogs and dum
A definitive account of the hitherto hidden slave past of America's first city."For much of the eighteenth century, New York City was second only to Charlestown, South Carolina, in its proportion of
Revised following the 2004 presidential election, a graphic portrait of the growing gap between the rich and everyone else in America. In 1968, African Americans earned 55 cents for every dollar of w
In the late Spring of 2005, George Galloway, a newly elected British Member of Parliament, came to Washington D.C., to appear before a Senate subcommittee that claimed - without ever talking to him -
A season with the infamous fans of the football team everyone loves to hate."[B]eyond doubt the sleaziest and rudest and most sinister mob of thugs and whackos ever assembled in such numbers under a s
An antidote to the "Hanoi Jane" myth, the first account of the celebrated actress's antiwar activism.Jane Fonda is important because she is a celebrity, and unimportant because she is a celebrity. She
"Here is the raw material for one thousand novels .incomparable."Margaret AtwoodIn this unique look at one of our most pervasive national myths, Studs Terkel persuades an extraordinary range of Ameri
The internationally acclaimed story of the corporate takeover of our most basic resource and the inevitable global water crisis.In this "chilling, in-depth examination of a rapidly emerging global cr
The acclaimed book of practical advice from students to their teachers.Since its initial publication in hardcover in 2003, Fires in the Bathroom has been through multiple printings and received the a
What really goes on behind the wall that surrounds the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis? What are all those midshipmen, future officers in the U.S. Naval and Marine Corps and leaders of our society, t
A brilliant expose of the contradiction between the American myth of self-reliance and the reality of an interdependent society. With the controversy over gay marriages grabbing national headlines, t
The first major history of the most popular women's team sport in the United States. Over the past decade, women's basketball has exploded onto the national sports scene. WNBA and NCAA television rat
A timely and much needed corrective to the current infatuation with cost-benefit analysis and the derelict logic used to defend it. As clinical as it sounds to express the value of human lives, heal
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
Operation Condor was the name given to a joint military alliance of six Latin American countries, led by General Augusto Pinochet's Chile, which organized kidnappings, torture, and political assassin
Robert L. Carter's history with the NAACP during its pivotal years (the 1940s through the 1960s) is at the center of this memoir, which offers a rare personal account of how the legal campaign in Bro
A brilliant cultural history detailing the fascinating relationship between movies and American society in the 1960s. In what the New York Times's A.O. Scott called a "suave, scholarly tour de force,
