From the political to the aesthetic, Nobel Lectures collects the words of a quarter century of literature laureates, offering a glimpse into the inspirations, motivations, and passionately held belief
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
"Deeply felt, deftly rendered, stunningly informative and often enraging" (Publishers Weekly), Hooked appears as we are finally waking up to the inadequacies of our current drug-rehab policies. With
Leading experts explain the discoveries of modern astrophysics in an illustrated companion to the American Museum of Natural History's newly renovated Rose Center for Earth and Space. Cosmic Horizons
The final volume in the definitive collection of Foucault's articles, interviews, and seminars. Power, the final volume of Essential Works of Foucault, 1954-1984, draws together philosopher Michel Fo
Key essays from the "prolific, provocative, 'big-picture theorist'" (Booklist) and originator of world-systems analysis. Immanuel Wallerstein is one of the most innovative social scientists of his ge
A Village Voice Best Book of the Year, Black Popular Culture includes "spirited debate among African American artists and cultural critics about issues from essentialism to sexuality" (Publishers Wee
Offering a fresh take on the endless battles over school reform, in Beyond the Education Wars journalist, bestselling author, and business professor Andrea Gabor argues that despite being championed b
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
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 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
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
The acclaimed labor lawyer and prizewinning author Thomas Geoghegan asks: where are we better off—America or Europe? In an idiosyncratic, entertaining travelogue that plays on public policy, Ge
In February of 2008, amid the looming global financial crisis, President Nicolas Sarkozy of France asked Nobel Prize–winning economists Joseph Stiglitz and Amartya Sen, along with the distingui
Dodson (sociology, Boston College) describes an underground, if unorganized, world of resistance to economic abuse at the intersection of middle-income and lower-income Americans, such as the mother w
An evaluation of America's Mexican immigrant group challenges popular misconceptions while discussing why today's immigrants have chosen to live in the United States and what they hope to achieve, in
A volume of previously unpublished or uncollected works by the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian is comprised of many of his favorite broadcasts, interviews, and writings, in an anthology that includes
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
A director of a non-profit school reform organization probes the challenges facing teachers and immigrant students in today's public schools, evaluating the ways in which immigration policies have div
The highly acclaimed, definitive collection of Abbott's popular New York photographs. Berenice Abbott (1898-1991) was one of this century's greatest photographers, and her New York City images have c
Severely traumatized after suffering genital mutilation in her native Africa, Tashi Johnson spends much of her adult life in North America seeking help through psychoanalysis and desperate to regain t
In a collection of essays, leading African-American scholars examine the devastation of post-hurricane Louisiana to explore issues of race, space, class, poverty, crime, housing, and politics in Ameri
In a widely acclaimed expose, a former Wall Street insider reveals how business executives and politicians schemed their way to the bank.Critical, independent voices are seldom found within the citad
Black, opinionated, and from a working-class background, Gary Younge is not your typical foreign correspondent. Yet, in three years as The Guardian newspaper's New York correspondent, Younge has acqu
The first collection of original contributions on American abolitionism to appear in a generation.The campaign to abolish slavery in the United States was the most powerful and effective social movem
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
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 New Press's Abridged Teaching Edition of A People's History of the United States has made Howard Zinn's original text available specifically for classroom use. With exercises and teaching materia
The bestselling treasure trove of World War II political cartoons by Dr. Seuss. For decades, readers throughout the world have enjoyed the marvelous stories and illustrations of Theodor Seuss Geisel,
The years following 1945 witnessed a massive change in American intellectual thought and in the life of American universities. The vast effort to mobilize intellectual talent during the war establish
Winner of the International Center for Photography's 1995 Award for Writing on Photography, Picturing Us brings together a diverse group of African American writers, scholars, and filmmakers in the f
The stunning debut of a brilliant nonfiction writer whose vivid account of his grandparents’ lives in Egypt, Tunisia, Palestine, and Los Angeles reclaims his family’s Jewish Arab identityT
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
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
Delhi offers a stunning series of more than 150 full-color documentary photographs and companion first-person texts, which together offer an unprecedented portrait of LGBTQ people’s lives in India tod
A visual retelling of the life of the anarchist and radical icon, presented in graphic-novel format, sketches her life at the forefront of twentieth-century causes, from depression-era demonstrations
On the stand with yippies, black panthers, and political activists at the conspiracy trial that defined the youth rebellion of the 1960s."Conspiracy? Hell, we couldn't agree on lunch."Abbie HoffmanMi
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
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
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
