In Captured, U.S. Senator and former federal prosecutor Sheldon Whitehouse offers an eye-opening take on what corporate influence looks like today from the Senate Floor, adding a first-hand perspectiv
In The Egyptians, journalist Jack Shenker uncovers the roots of the uprising that succeeded in toppling Hosni Mubarak, one of the Middle East’s most entrenched dictators, and explores a country now di
In the wake of the Paris, Beirut, and San Bernardino terrorist attacks, fears over ?homegrown terrorism” have surfaced to a degree not seen since September 11, 2001—especially following the news that
Despite decades of research on classroom management and school discipline, so-called bad behavior nevertheless persists in every kind of classroom in every kind of school. Even as the harsh disciplini
Twenty years ago it was impossible to imagine the president of the United States embracing same-sex marriage or Bruce Jenner transitioning to Caitlyn Jenner, an open transgender woman.LGBTQ Stats chro
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
The Drone Memos is a groundbreaking volume that collects and explains the legal documents underlying the Obama administration’s hugely controversial program of remote-control assassination.Jameel Jaff
Birth of a Dream Weaver charts the very beginnings of a writer’s creative output. In this wonderful memoir, internationally renowned Kenyan writer and author of the now-classic Wizard and the Crow, Ng
In Strangers in Their Own Land, the renowned sociologist Arlie Hochschild embarks on a thought-provoking journey from her liberal hometown of Berkeley, California, deep into the heart of the bayou of
"Amid the hype of Race to the Top, online experiments such as Khan Academy, and bestselling books like The Sandbox Investment, we seem to have drawn a line that leads from nursery school along a purel
In a book that recalls My So-Called Life and Diane Ravitch, A School of Our Own tells the remarkable story of the Independent Project, the first student-run high school in America. Founder Sam Levin,
In 2015, more than one million migrants and refugees, most fleeing war-torn countries in Africa and the Middle East, attempted to make the perilous journey into Europe. Around three thousand lost thei
"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
In 2009, musician Franz Nicolay left his job in the Hold Steady, aka the world’s greatest bar band.” Over the next five years, he crossed the world with a guitar in one hand, a banjo in the other, and
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
Upon its first publication in 2001 as the inaugural volume in The New Press People’s History series, edited by the late Howard Zinn, Ray Raphael’s magisterialA People’s History of the American Revolut
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
In a country known as one of the most queer-friendly nations in the world, most Australians support LGBTI rights, federal laws protect queer people from discrimination, transgender Australians are rec
Written by the blogger who was the first to report on the lobbyists who planned the Tea Parties, A Field Guide to the Right is a groundbreaking, comprehensive exposé of the hidden plans to keep
A collection designed to highlight Howard Zinn’s seminal writings, The Indispensible Zinn includes excerpts from the bestselling A People’s History of the United States; his memoir, You C
The most destructive war in human history, World War Two continues to generate an astonishingly rich trove of historical material, writings, and first-person recollections, which are essential to any
Offshore reveals how the vast network of unregulated financial centersfrom Luxemburg to the Cayman islands to the tiny Pacific haven of Nauru amount to a nether realm of drug and arms tra
When Dr. John Snow first traced an outbreak of cholera to a water pump in the Soho district of London in 1854, the field of epidemiology was born. Taking the same concepts and tools of public health t
Mexican Revolutions is a brief, important history of the revolutions, class conflicts, civil wars, and feuds that took place in Mexico from 1910 to 1920, by celebrated historian John Womack.Published
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
In an account of the U.S. role in the Middle East, Three Kings is an ?erudite, persuasively argued, and lucid” (Publishers Weekly) narrative of America’s deep and tangled relationships in the region.
Be Honest is the newest innovative publishing project from 826 National, the tutoring center founded by bestselling author Dave Eggers, now with branches in eight cities nationwide. Eggers’s co-founde
Includes chapters on what today’s activists must know about the threats posed by federal law enforcement agents and their tactics, as well as the actual text of the recently released FBI Domes
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
Tens of millions of Americans currently live in poverty, more and more of them in extreme poverty. But the words we use to describe them tend to obscure rather than illuminate the human lives and real
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
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
In the style of the beloved and hugely popular Mad Libs, Mad Cons is a hilarious spoof that invites readers to play a game of fill-in-the-blanks, creating fanciful sentences from the greatest hits an
Placing GLBT people at the center of the history of the twentieth century,Vicki L. Eaklor’s Queer America: A People’s GLBT History of the United States is a major new effort to popularize a long-overl
By the time their paths first crossed in the 1960s, Barbara Deming and DavidMcReynolds had each charted a unique course through the political and social worlds of the American left. Deming, a feminist
Called a ?fascinating exploration of economic civil disobedience” by Publishers Weekly, Lisa Dodson’s stunning book The Moral Underground features stories of middle-class managers and professionals wh
