A collaboration between a National Book Award–winning journalist and a prize-winning photographer on the queer-resistance theater troupe In the fall of 2017, the internationally acclaimed underg
As seen on The Daily Show, NPR’s Marketplace, and Fresh Air, the “powerful, chilling tale” (Carol Anderson) of higher education becoming an engine of social inequalityPublished to high acclaim and a f
An NPR Best Book of 2017 that exposes our oral health crisis and the astonishing role that teeth and oral health play in our societyIn this brilliant debut book, hailed by the New York Times Book Revi
One of AFAR magazine’s ?8 New Books You Need to Read Before Flying to France”?It’s the authors’ friendly accessibility that makes these stories so memorable.”?Christine Muhlke, The New York Times Book
2018 George C. Rogers Jr. Book Award FinalistNamed one of the Summer Books 2018” selection by Times Literary Supplement Named one of the 17 Refreshing Books to Read This Summer”
When Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential elections, a bewildered nation turned to Strangers in Their Own Land to understand what had happened and what Trump voters were thinking when they cast thei
The “lively” (Kirkus Reviews), provocative, much-talked-about book that challenges the mandate for all students to master a full menu of mathematics, from the bestselling authorWhen Andrew
PAPERBACK ORIGINAL From the bestselling cartoonist of The Cartoon History of the Universe comes an explosive graphic takedown of capitalismBestselling “overeducated cartoonist” Larry Gonic
"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
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
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
Not long ago, same-sex couples had to jump through endless hoops to make their relationships even close to legal. Creating contracts and using creative estate-planning tools, lawyers legitimized same-
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 Studs Terkel Interviews: Film and Theater collects the Pulitzer Prize–winning oral historian’s remarkable conversations with some of the greatest luminaries of film and theater. Originally publish
Leading experts reflect on the changing nature of work and family life. While many aspects of work have changed dramatically over the last few decades, society has struggled to adapt, to the detriment
Now back in print, the groundbreaking history of the rise and fall of labor movements in New York's Chinatown, updated with a new introduction. Focusing primarily on New York City's Chinatown in the 1
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
