In this provocative new book, Richard A. Greenwalda working-class kid from Queens turned historian, professor, and college deanargues that we are at a fork in the road. The country can either move fur
The prize-winning PBS correspondent's provocative antidote to America’s misguided approaches to K-12 school reformDuring his four-decade career at NPR and PBS, John Merrow reported from every st
A gripping novel that explores history and memory and the traumatic legacy of the HolocaustIn May 1962, twenty-two men gathered in Jerusalem to decide by lot who would be Eichmann’s executioner. These
"Olmsted’s vivid, accomplished narrative really belongs to the historiography of the left… as her strong research shows, race and gender prejudice informed or deformed, almost the whole of American so
" Shehadeh's] books are maps, painstakingly pieced together, of regions lost to senseless division, to bad choices, and to lies."--The Nation "Remarkable and hopeful . . . a deeply honest and intense
The outspoken Connecticut Congresswoman’s impassioned defense of America’s safety net during Tea Party timesCynical politicians like Paul Ryan and Donald Trump argue that the people of the United Stat
An exhilarating journey through the subcultures, occupied squats, and late-night scenes in the anarchic first few years of Berlin after the fall of the wallBerlin Calling is a gripping account of the
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
The day after the 2016 presidential election, filmmaker Carlos Sandoval found Ku Klux Klan fliers on the seats of the Long Island Railroad and recounts how his Cuban American niece Lexi’s world was “s
Cops, politicians, and ordinary people are afraid of black men. The result is the Chokehold: laws and practices that treat every African American man like a thug. In this explosive new book, an Africa
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWASHINGTON POST BESTSELLER"[E]ssential?I hope many people involved in Democratic politics will read Phillips’ book and take real steps to implement change."?The Huffington Pos
The LGBTQ community in Japan has faced its challenges. Even as some religious and warrior orders have a long and recognized tradition of same-sex love, to be considered different, to be ?the nail that
Words matter. Every day in schools, language is used?whether in the classroom, in a student-teacher meeting, or from principals, guidance counselors, and other school professionals?implying, intention
One night in April 2014, members of the terrorist organization Boko Haram raided the small town of Chibok in northeast Nigeria and abducted 276 young girls from the local boarding school. The event ca
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
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
"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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
Over eight bloody months in the mid-1970s, a serial rapist and murderer terrorized Columbus, Georgia, killing seven affluent, elderly white women by strangling them in their beds. In 1986, eight year
Dr. Seuss & Co. Go to War brings together over 300 all new cartoons from the World War II era, including more than 100 by Seuss, 50 cartoons by the New Yorker’s Saul Steinberg, and works by
