The searing story of one man's years inside thenotorious American prisonand his Kafkaesque struggle to clear his name."Under the hood I felt I couldn't breathe properly .Flashing lightsobviously from
Americans view the September 11th attacks as the act of an anachronistic and dangerous sect, one that championed medieval and outmoded ideals. But as John Gray demonstrates, the ideology of Al Qaeda
Thirteen leading experts confront the justice department's assault on civil liberties. To those who scare peace-loving people with phantoms of lost liberty, my message is this: Your tactics only aid
Teaching for Social Justice engages parents, citizens, students, and teachers in a conversation about education in a democracy. It features a unique mix of hands-on, historical, and inspirational wri
Finally available in paperback, Power and Culture is the last work by America’s most influential labor and social historian, the late Herbert Gutman. Edited and introduced by Gutman’s colleague Ira Be
A sweeping historical travelogue of the contentious border of France and Spain, in the great tradition of Bruce Chatwin and Jan MorrisWith the Catalonia crisis making international headlines, the uniq
Timely hot topic: With Trump’s appointment of Betsy DeVos, this topic will be front and center for media, parent, educators, and policymakers. Also, the book draws important connections for those seek
Having made his name in the late 1980s as a founding member of the indie band Galaxie 500, Damon Krukowski has watched cultural life lurch from analog to digital. As an artist who has weathered the tr
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
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 Tide Players, acclaimed New Yorker contributor and author Jianying Zha depicts a new generation of movers and shakers who are transforming modern China. Through half a dozen sharply etched and nuan
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
The Freedoms We Lost is an ambitious historical analysis of the American revolution that reinterprets the gains and losses experienced by ordinary Americans and challenges the easy narrative that sub
Four out of ten Americans say they dislike Muslims, according to a Gallup poll. “Muslims,” a blogger wrote on the Web site Free Republic, “don’t belong in America.” In a lively, funny, and revealing r
One of the leading educational philosophers of the twentieth century, Theodore Brameld helped pioneer the idea that education can be used to transform society for the better. He believed that sch
In Classroom Conversations, two generations of educators—a mother and daughter—point us to the great thinkers who have shaped their beliefs and practices in education, and who continue to influence te
A scathing study of executive power run amok criticizes the Bush administration for creating a "secret presidency" marked by classified presidential decisions and order in the name of national securit
Hellman (York U., Canada) offers insights into the lives of the 6 million undocumented Mexican migrant workers currently living in the United States, noting that the fluctuations in this populace are
In her first novel to appear in English, the late French writer offers a fictionalized account of her search for the truth behind the disappearance of her mother, a writer who was sent to Auschwitz wh
Documents an eight-month serial murder case in late-1970s Georgia during which an African-American serial rapist and murderer killed seven elderly white women, tracing the subsequent eight-year, racia
A scathing portrait of contemporary executive power run amok, by the author of the original 1976 Church Committee report on executive abuse."In thirty-four years, I have repeatedly seen an erosion of
The Pulitzer Prize winner's "latest indispensable oral history" (New York Times) of the twentieth century's most celebrated musicians.Throughout the second half of the twentieth century, Studs Terkel
Preeminent historians explore how the most controversial aspects of the American past are documented.In recent years, the culture wars have included arguments about the way that slavery is taught and
