Having set out the problem of civilization in the first volume, environmentalist Jensen here suggests what to do about it. Among his perspectives are identification, dams, psychopathology, fewer than
“It's difficult to imagine a more welcoming entry into northern Afghan culture, or a more touching set of relationships formed, and maintained, under horrific circumstances.”&m
With the narrative punch of Jonathan Harr’s A Civil Action and the commitment to environmental truth-telling of Erin Brockovich, The Fluoride Deception documents a powerful connection between big corp
A couple's scheme to get rich by killing their father backfires, leaving them in charge of a cripple. In heaven, a baby, dead through neglect, tells his playmates: "Life down there is just one long sl
“In this fascinating exploration, [The Shere Hite Reader] moves beyond the cliches of what pleases men and women and explores how attitudes on sex and pleasure have evolved and continue to evolve.”—Bo
“Israel/Palestine is the most devastating critique now available of Israel’s policy toward the Palestinian people.”—Edward W. Said“Dense and precise.”—Agnes Gruda, La Presse“Reinhart accomplishes the
Notes from the Last Testament, by veteran reporter Michael Deibert, is a riveting narrative account of the events leading up to and including the overthrow of Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
In a series of interviews given in the wake of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, Angela Y. Davis explores how historical systems of oppression like slavery and lynching continue to influence and undermi
Do the Blind Dream? shows Gifford at the height of his powers, navigating with ease the new, more fragmented imaginative landscape of morning-after America. Gifford seems to have anticipated themes th
In The Battle of Venezuela, veteran Latin America correspondent Michael McCaughan chronicles Chavez's controversial ascent to the helm of one of the world's largest oil-producing countries. McCaughan
A co-publication of Seven Stories Press and Akashic Books.With the passage of time, an ever-growing number of indisputable facts are pointing to very serious breaches of integrity and an unsettling la
Lulu's journey begins on the night she loses her virginity to Pablo, her brother's best friend and twelve years her senior. Their relationship is obsessive - not possessive - and their appetites for n
In her major address to the 99th annual meeting of the American Sociological Association on August 16, 2004, "Public Power in the Age of Empire," broadcast nationally on C-Span Book TV and on Democrac
“In a world where political satire has been reduced to oral sex jokes, Barry Crimmins stands out as one of the few humorists who takes the high ground and comments on what’s really importa
In And Their Children After Them, the writer/photographer team Dale Maharidge and Michael Williamson return to the land and families captured in James Agee and Walker Evans’s inimitable Let Us Now Pra
On any given day, over 20,000 men, women, and children languish in indefinite detention in the United States. In Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo Bay, thousands more are imprisoned or shipped to oth
Here in their own words are Frederick Douglass, George Jackson, Chief Joseph, Martin Luther King Jr., Plough Jogger, Sacco and Vanzetti, Patti Smith, Bruce Springsteen, Mark Twain, and Malcolm X, to n
In 1943 the U.S. government issues its first zinc pennies, and ten-year-old Trygve Napoli leaves behind the slow, freezing winters of his grandparents' Montana farmstead to join his mother in the per
Greg Palast, one of today’s most celebrated (and vilified) investigative journalists, creates 54 cards to identify the industry moguls, corrupt politicos, and crackpot ideologues who stole t
In one tale, a Vietnamese boy's self-guided, haphazard study of English gives way to a meditation on the university of language. "Everything seems chaotic at first, but nothing is chaotic. One can rea
Rosario is born into a world of poverty and abuse. Following the lead of her beloved older brother, she attempts to rise above her misery on a wave of bullets and blood, with some success. Kept by we
Argues that the popular host of the Fox television program is following a conservative agenda despite his denials and attempts to expose O'Reilly's misstatements, bias, and error in his reporting.
Every year the United States spends millions of dollars to help the war-ravaged country of Colombia. But help it with what? In Colombia and the U.S. Mario Murillo explores the misdirected and devastat
David Hilfiker has committed his life, both as a writer and a doctor, to people in need, writing about the urban poor with whom he’s spent all his days for the last two decades. In Urban Injustice, he
"Negative ethnicity" is Koigi wa Wamwere’s name for the deep-seated tensions in Africa that the world has seen flare so terrifyingly. The genocide in Rwanda and "ethnic" killing in the Democratic Repu
A concise dissection of the new U.S. unilateralism, Power Trip is the first book-length critique of this fundamental shift in U.S. foreign policy to consolidate and extend U.S. global control. Chartin
"Everything I have to say about race and religion and politics is in the novels," declares Barry Gifford. The Rooster Trapped in the Reptile Room gathers generous portions of all thirteen no
In this, his first new book since the international bestseller 9-11, Noam Chomsky presents his latest thinking on terrorism and U.S. foreign policy, focusing on alternatives to the current course of a
Our Media, Not Theirs! The Democratic Struggle Against Corporate Media examines how the current media system in the United States undermines democracy, and what we can do to change it. McChesney and N
Chomsky’s classic back-pocket primer on U.S. government propaganda and media bias, now available in an edition expanded to include his comments regarding media coverage of terrorism and U.S. fo
Today's record-breaking heat waves, droughts, and floods foreshadow an increasingly unstable future. The Bush Administration, meanwhile, has chosen to reject the Kyoto Protocol, deny the consequences
In These Times, the national, biweekly magazine of news and opinion, has provided groundbreaking coverage of the labor movement, the environment, feminism, grassroots politics, minority communities, a
Blake's Therapy is a whirlwind ride through the desires of one man to find something real in a virtual world. After suffering a mental breakdown, Graham Blake checks into the Corporate Life Therapy In
Tomando en cuenta las sensibildades culturales de las comunidades latinas, las dos autoras de este libro se han ocupado de ensenar como tomar control y manejar su propio dinero. El libro muestra como
The intersection of motherhood and creative life is explored in these writings on mothering that turn the spotlight from the child to the mother herself. Here, in memoirs, testimonials, diaries, essay
Four generations of Americans have come to associate Ralph Nader with the political issues that have defined our age, be it car safety in the 1960s or the anti-WTO demonstrations that recently shut do
When Benjamin Pogrund, one of South Africa's most distinguished journalists, first began his career as a young reporter in the 1950s, "There had been little reason at that stage to believe that anythi
"My father tried to kill my mother one Sunday in June, in the early afternoon," begins Shame, the probing story of the twelve-year-old girl who will become the author herself, and the single traumatic
Right now, there are more pets in America than people, and many count their pets among the most beloved members of their family. However, a surprising number of pet owners are not aware that the lifes
In the first section, Null, a Ph.D. in nutrition and author of dozens of books on health and natural healing, deals with a variety of women's health issues, their causes, symptoms, and alternative tre
