An anti-tourist guide that debunks San Diego's sunshine myth for locals and visitors alike. For fourteen million tourists each year, San Diego is the fun place in the sun that never breaks your heart
An eye-opening, twenty-first century guide to the myths and realities of the international economy. This fully updated and expanded second edition of The Field Guide to the Global Economy presents th
A literary portrait of immigrant America including contributions from celebrated authors,young writers, and undocumented workers. This outstanding collection captures the diverse voices
Eric Hobsbawm has been widely acclaimed as one of the greatest living historians. Called "a lyrical, pungent, and provocative memoir" by Publishers Weekly, Interesting Times offers a personal tour th
Working as a correspondent for the New York Press, The Nation, and Rolling Stone, Matt Taibbi has close-up access to the Democratic primary for the 2004 presidential election: a seat on John Kerry's
Leading experts reflect on the changing nature of work and family life. While many aspects of work have changed dramatically over the last few decades, society has struggled to adapt, to the detriment
The internationally acclaimed biography of Sartre in celebration of the 100th anniversary of his birth. The first volume in the Lives of the Left series, Annie Cohen-Solal's Sartre is a remarkable ac
Police departments across the country have begun to embrace a new approach to law enforcement, which David A. Harris calls "preventive policing." Based on five years of research, Good Cops highlights
Linda Wallander is bored. Just graduated from the police academy, she is waiting to start work at the Ystad police station and move into her own apartment. In the meantime, she is staying with her fa
In a book that grew out of teach-ins participated in by editors Gardner (history, Rutgers U.) and Young (history, New York U.) in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq, American historians explore issues
This selection of articles and excerpts presents an overview of the thought of the Swedish economist Gunnar Myrdal, who received the Nobel Prize in 1974. Each of the excerpts begins with a short intro
Drawing on his firsthand research in Cuba, Rose, a journalist for the BBC, contends that the post-9-11 Guantanamo Bay detention camp for suspected terrorists constitutes a gross abuse of human rights
The latest oral history from the unrivaled master of the genre. Hope Dies Last is Studs Terkel's inspiring new oral history of social action in America. An alternative, more personal history of the "
Judging from media reports, North Korea is the country Americans love to hate. A charter member of Bush's "Axis of Evil" whose leader, Kim Jong Il, is routinely described as "insane" and "diabolical"
She's Ilka Weissnix, a young Jewish refugee from Hitler's Europe, newly arrived in the United States. He's Carter Bayoux, her first American: a middle-aged, hard-drinking black intellectual. Lore Seg
In the tradition of Kapuscinski and Didion, an apocalyptic, firsthand view of the war in Iraq. "Ah, the freedom. Look, we have the gas-line freedom, the looting freedom, the killing freedom, the rape
In this new approach to the study of the American Civil War, Andrew S. Coopersmith delves into hundreds of local newspapers published during the conflict, providing a selection of colorful, idiosyncr
In The War at Home, Frances Fox Piven dissects the way war has propped up America's rulers - at home. She examines how the war on terror initially served to buttress George W. Bush's political base -
Critical, independent voices are seldom found within the citadels of international finance. That's what makes Nomi Prins unique. During fifteen years in the upper flights of banks like Goldman Sachs,
Here is the first biography of the most powerful vice president in American history. Drawing on groundbreaking reporting - including interviews with members of Congress who have tangled with the vice
For over a century, California has been the world's most advanced agricultural zone, an agrarian juggernaut that not only out-produces every state in America, but also most countries. A full one-third
The comic, poignant, one-of-a-kind book that "reads like an enthralling novel" (Studs Terkel). When it first appeared in hardcover, Which Side Are You On? received widespread critical accolades, and
James Marcus was hired as a senior editor at Amazon.com in 1996, giving him a ringside seat for the company's explosive rise and dismal wallet-busting swoon. Now - as the e-commerce giant makes an as
Read the actual intelligence reports (not the spin)and make up your own mind. In America, the wife of the former ambassador who exposed George Bush's sixteen-word State-of-the-Union fib about uranium
B> Anti-sweatshop activist and commentator Andrew Ross reports on the Inventiveness of low-pay campaigners around the world. While critics have decried anti-globalization as an aimlessand endlessasso
The historical and ideological roots of right-wing dogma are exposed in this collection of essays by some of America's leading historians of foreign policy and the Cold War era, countering the triumph
Robert McChesney (U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) has established a reputation for being one of the most important radical voices criticizing the American commercial media over the past few decade
The Prix Goncourt winner brings Dante to today's Paris. Max Delmarc, age 50, is a famous concert pianist with two problems: the first is a paralyzing stage fright for which the second, alcohol, is the
A photographic tour of an African-American urban Chicago community in the early 1940s features more than one hundred full-page black-and-white photographs of its streets, businesses, cabarets, and peo
Read the actual intelligence reports (not the spin)and make up your own mind. In America, the wife of the former ambassador who exposed George Bush's sixteen-word State-of-the-Union fib about uranium
Israeli citizens disavow their government's current policies. The Other Israel is an urgent and passionate intervention by Israeli citizens challenging the continued occupation of Palestinian territo
In these pages we follow a South Asian couple from the computer industry of Bangalore, India, to a small software start-up in Silicon Valley; a Mexican family who travels to work in the meatpacking p
A brilliant expose of the contradiction between the American myth of self-reliance and the reality of an interdependent society. In a truly paradigm-shifting book, Martha Albertson Fineman, the influ
An immediate bestseller in France, Making Love is an original and daring retelling of a classic theme: the end of an affair. Following a couple's final days together in Japan, the novel explores the
The new thriller from the internationally bestselling author of the Kurt Wallander mystery series. It would be nearly two hours before he died. As if in a borderland of horror between the nagging pai
An economist and a law professor debunk the use of cost-benefit analysis in deciding whether human life and the environment are worth protecting. EPA estimates of the value of one human life: in 2000
Over 200 never-before-published photographs from one of the twentieth century's most innovative photographers. Atget reached the pole of utmost mastery; but with the bitter modesty of a great craftsm
A disturbing chronicle of the terror and uncertainty of daily life in Colombia's American-funded civil war. The town needs to get 300 coffins ready. Heads Up! The priest better be ready to work overti
"In the future there will be two kinds of corporations; those that go global, and those that go bankrupt."C. Michael Armstrong, CEO, AT&T Of the 100 largest economies in the world, 53 are corporation
