NOW IN PAPERBACK -  The stunning investigation of the deep historical roots of the U.S. misadventure in Iraq—all the more timely as the U.S. involvement in Afghanistan deepens

 

A sweeping history that brilliantly recaptures one of the few truly pivotal years in U.S. history, with a flamboyant cast of characters from Billy the Kid to John D. Rockefeller

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL: A field guide to identifying and saving the things we all own together—from water to the Internet, and everything in between

NOW IN PAPERBACK: In a book that Kirkus calls “certain to provoke,”an absorbing look at the internal rift within the Confederacy, which tore apart the South during the Civil War

The little-known civic mission of early television broadcasting, recounted by a star in Cinema Studies

A brilliant and original examination of American freedom as it existed before the Revolution, from the Smithsonian’s curator of social history

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL - For omnivores and vegans alike, a hard-hitting and eye-opening guide to the meat you eat, by the world’s most famous vegan

NOW IN PAPERBACK “A must-read,” (Jon Lee Anderson) that offers a gripping account of the botched assassination attempt of Khalid Mishal, which became a pivotal moment in the rise of Hamas

NOW IN PAPERBACK: In a book Library Journal calls “required reading for all concerned about their neighborhoods and our criminal justice system,” a former federal prosecutor’s radical argument for reform

PAPERBACK A thoroughly updated edition of the clever, fun-to-read compilation of union language and lore

A dozen brilliant portraits by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author Andrew Greeley described as a “social scientist, humanist, political activist, psychiatrist, minstrel, wandering storytelling, mystic, wise man, poet dissenter"

A freewheeling and groundbreaking investigation into how our growing reliance on air conditioning has transformed the planet—and its continuing consequences for us all

The response to Tenured Radicals and Illiberal Education—a major critique of how political and financial attacks on the academy are undermining our system of higher education

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL: A major, timely new report on why GDP is a deeply flawed indicator of economic performance and social progress—and how to develop better indicators of societal well-being—by the renowned Nobel Prize–winning economists

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL: In the great tradition of James R Loewen's Lies My Teacher Told Me, a teaching version of the book that offers a crash course in the “history of history,” and how contemporary prejudices color the way each generation looks at the nation’s past

A paradigm-shifting look at our criminal justice system that sees prisons as the problem, not the solution

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL:  From Eugene Debs to Paul Robeson, Angela Davis, and Harvey Milk—a compendium of words that spurred American Radical thought and action, from the early twentieth century to the present

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL: The comprehensive—and controversial—analysis by a blue-ribbon international commission of the causes and remedies for our world economic crisis, written by a UN committee chaired by the Nobel Prize–winning economist

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL: Three decades of questionable American fashions, relationships, and politics - as seen through the eyes of one of our most beloved comic characters.

The renowned labor lawyer and acclaimed author poses the question of the moment: where are we better off—America or Europe (And why is Germany outcompeting us)

A stunning illumination of the heart and mind of one of the world’s most celebrated living writers