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
America's leading authority on Korea provides a timely look at US-Korean relations. We are capable of fighting two major regional conflicts....Capable of winning decisively in one and swiftly defeati
The internationally renowned theorist contends that the sun is setting on the American Empire. The United States in decline? Its admirers and detractors alike claim the opposite: that America is now
The definitive condemnation of America's reckless foreign policies, by "the foremost modern historian of war" (The Guardian). Another Century of War? is a candid and critical look at America's "new w
When terrorists flew jets into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, the social effects were as dramatic as the visual images. Individual lives, families, friendship networks
Inspector Kurt Wallander's long-anticipated vacation plans are interrupted by two horrific deaths: the self-immolation of an unidentified young woman and the brutal murder of the former minister of j
From an award-winning civil rights lawyer, a profound challenge to our society's normalization of the caging of human beings, and the role of the legal profession in perpetuating it Alec Karakatsanis
Winner of a special Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, the book that Evicted author Matthew Desmond calls “a powerful investigation into the ways the United States has addressed poverty. . . . lucid and tr
“Powerful and important . . . an instant classic.” —The Washington Post Book WorldThe award-winning look at an ugly aspect of American racism by the bestselling author of Lies My Tea
“Powerful and important . . . an instant classic.” —The Washington Post Book WorldThe award-winning look at an ugly aspect of American racism by the bestselling author of Lies My Tea
"A powerful call for reform."--NPR An all-star team of criminal justice experts present timely, innovative, and humane ways to end mass incarceration Mass incarceration will end--there is an emerging
In addition to exposing racially biased policing, the Justice Department’s Ferguson Report exposed to the world a system of fines and fees levied for minor crimes in Ferguson, Missouri, that, when the
Judges, academics, and activists keep wondering how children are impacted by having gay parents. Maybe it’s time to ask the kids. For the past four years, award-winning photographer Gabriela Herman, w
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
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
After World War II, philosophy in France entered a particularly rich period whose influence is still strong in many areas today. New styles were invented, new problems were formulated, and new critica
A Bomb in Every Issue recounts the rise and fall of Ramparts magazine, which, for nearly a decade in the 1960s, was the nation’s premier leftist publication, combining radical content, sophisticated d
The Bourdieu Reader brings together three of Pierre Bourdieu’s shorter books published by The New Press as well as several articles, interviews, and speeches. In Acts of Resistance Bourdieu spe
In this poignant, powerful volume, the influential Jewish thinker and critic Marc H. Ellis takes on the hard moral questions about Jewish support for the state of Israel. Reviewing the historical reco
A public interest attorney and best-selling author of Which Side Are You On? looks at America's litigious society as he argues that the conservative revolution helped promote the lawsuit culture, caus
Running a 1990s Cape Town travel agency in spite of her private hatred of traveling, Marion shares a complex relationship with an African employee and eschews national politics, until the exposures of
"Beginning with the owners of private prison companies, and extending through a whole range of esoteric industries--from the makers of taser stun guns, to riot security training companies, to prison h
A primer on the social and economic changes sweeping across contemporary Latin America."Where have the economic policies succeeded? This is not a matter of ideology, it is political, technical, a mat
The book that is provoking a major reexamination of the legacy of the Cold War.In 2002, President George W. Bush declared, "The great struggles of the twentieth century between liberty and totalitar
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
A controversial and fascinating rewriting of the history of cinema's golden age. Radical Hollywood is the first comprehensive history of the Hollywood Left. From the dawn of sound movies to the early
The author focuses attention on the $48 billion tobacco industry, tracing its remarkable success as a cash crop and modern superbusiness, even in the face of public health concerns about their product
For the past thirty years, Hal Foster has pushed the boundaries of cultural criticism, establishing a vantage point from which the seemingly disparate agendas of artists, patrons, and critics have a t
A 1998 Los Angeles Times Book of the Year: the "vivid and moving" (Los Angeles Times Book Review) composite portrait of the historic migration of German-speaking refugees from Hitler. Hitler's Exiles
A Village Voice Literary Supplement Best Book of the Year, this “treasure chest of essays about the relationship of writing to cultural politics” (Utne Reader) celebrates a myriad of voices and histor
"In this groundbreaking collection of articles, Dr. Guy-Sheftall has taken us from the early 1830s to contemporary times. Only since the seventies have black women used the term 'feminism.' And, yet,
Named One of the Best Books of the Year by NPRA timely and groundbreaking argument that all Americans must grapple with Latinos' dynamic racial identity—because it impacts everything we think we know
From the author of the national bestseller Lies My Teacher Told Me, a completely updated - and more timely than ever - version of the myth-busting history book that focuses on the inaccuracies, myths,
A fully updated and revised edition of the book USA Today called “jim-dandy pop history,” by the bestselling, American Book Award–winning authorFrom the author of the national bestse
A thrilling and timely account of ten moments in history when labor challenged the very nature of power in America, by the author called “a brilliant historian” by The Progressive magazine
A bestselling cultural journalist shows how pop culture prepared Americans to embrace extreme politics Almost everything has been invoked to account for Trump’s victory and the rise of the alt-r
An unforgettable chronicle of the year the brilliant novelist and memoirist, long favored for the Nobel Prize, was thrown in a Kenyan jail without chargeWrestling with the Devil, Ngũg&#
Few in the Polish LGBTQ community could have foreseen how quickly this deeply conservative and Catholic country would change since it joined the European Union. Back in 2004, gay rights marches were b
Some of us have been here before. Many people living today in America and around the world have direct experience with countries where an autocrat has seized control, changing everything from the teno
