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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


 



10 Excellent Reasons for National Health Care

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL As the number of uninsured American reaches epic numbers, here’s a concise and convincing guide that explains why national health care is the only  approach that makes sense



10 Excellent Reasons Not to Hate Taxes

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL A short, snappy handbook countering the anti-tax, anti-government rhetoric that permeates our culture and reminding us why taxes lie at the heart of a functioning democracy



10 Excellent Reasons Not to Join the Military

A short, snappy handbook detailing why the military may need you, but you really don't need it



12 Angry Men: True Stories of Being a Black Man in America Today

Contemporary, first-person accounts of racial profiling, as experienced by a dozen black men from all walks of life and all parts of our so-called post-racial country



1877: America's Year of Living Violently

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



30 Satires

A leading political satirist skewers the pretensions and vanities of America’s equestrian classes



42 Up: Give Me the Child Until He Is Seven and I Will Show You the Man"



The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust, 1941–1945

A handsome new paperback edition of the bestselling classic on America’s response to the Nazi assault on European Jews



The Absolute Perfection of Crime: A Novel

An explosive crime novel with all the tough grittiness of film noir



Acts of Resistance: Against the Tyranny of the Market



Admiring Silence



Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology



African Art Portfolio: An Illustrated Introduction: Masterpieces from the Eleventh to the Twentieth Centuries



After Liberalism



After the New Economy: The Binge . . . And the Hangover That Won’t Go Away

Journalist Doug Henwood’s withering postmortem of the new economy



After the Storm: Black Intellectuals Explore the Meaning of Hurricane Katrina

NOW IN PAPERBACK On the second anniversary of Katrina, one of the few books to offer the perspectives of African Americans on the Gulf Coast tragedy



Against the Wall: Israel’s Barrier to Peace

Voices from Israel and the occupied territories, as well as around the world, explore the intersection of architecture and politics



AIDS Agenda: Emerging Issues in Civil Rights



Al Qaeda and What It Means to Be Modern

A provocative and stimulating reevaluation of Al Queda by one of Britain’s most controversial thinkers



Al' America: Travels Through America’s Arab and Islamic Roots

From surf music to the ice cream cone—a lively and eye-opening look at the little-known influence of Arab and Islamic culture on America, by the San Francisco Chronicle journalist



All About You: An Adventure of Self-Discovery



All Alone in the World: Children of the Incarcerated

NOW IN PAPERBACK An award-winning journalist’s “heart wrenching”(The San Antonio Observer) look at children with parents in prison—a Newsweek “book of the week” and an East Bay Express bestseller



All That We Share: How to Save the Economy, the Environment, the Internet, Democracy, Our Communities, and Everything Else That Belongs to All of Us

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



All Things Being Equal: Instigating Opportunity in an Inequitable Time

Eight sparkling essays by leading thinkers on how to give all Americans a fair shake, published with a hot new social change group



Amazonia: Five Years at the Epicenter of the Dot.Com Juggernaut

NOW IN PAPERBACK Employee #55’s story of the first five years of Amazon.com, which “brims with fascinating Amazoniana” (The Los Angeles Times)



America by the Numbers: A Field Guide to the U.S. Population

An eye-opening, at-a glance guide to the myths and realities of American demography



American Dreams: Lost and Found

Here is the raw material for one thousand novels. . . incomparable.  —MARGARET ATWOOD



American Power and the New Mandarins: Historical and Political Essays

Back in print, the seminal work by “arguably the most important intellectual alive” (The New York Times)



America’s Military Today: Challenges for the Armed Forces in a Time of War

NOW IN PAPERBACK An unvarnished look at today's armed forces, by leading experts



Anatomy of a War: Vietnam, the United States, and the Modern Historical Experience



And They All Sang: Adventures of an Eclectic Disc Jockey

NOW IN PAPERBACK the Pulitzer Prize winner’s “latest indispensable oral history” (New York Times) of the twentieth century’s most celebrated musicians



Anita and Me



Annapolis Autumn: Life, Death, and Literature at the U.S. Naval Academy

In the tradition of Dead Poets Society, an English professor recounts the unique challenges of teaching liberal arts at one of America's premier military schools



Another Century of War?

The definitive condemnation of America’s reckless foreign policies, by “the foremost modern historian of war” (Guardian)



The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture



Antiquities: Postwar French Thought, Volume III

The third volume in the “timely and ambitious” (Boston Book Review) New Press Postwar French Thought Series



An Army of Phantoms: American Movies and the Making of the Cold War

From one of the country's preeminent film and cultural critics, an imaginative, intellectually bracing work drawing unexpected parallels between postwar America and its movies



art & education book



The Art of Ancient Egypt: Masterpieces from the Brooklyn Museum



Art of the American Indian Frontier: A Portfolio



Art on My Mind: Visual Politics



Asia/America: Identities in Contemporary Asian American Art



Asian Americans: Oral Histories of First to Fourth Generation Americans from China, the Philippines, Japan, India, the Pacific Islands, Vietnam, and Cambodia



Asian Americans in the Twenty-first Century: Oral Histories of First- to Fourth-Generation Americans from China, Japan, India, Korea, the Philippines, Vietnam, and Laos

A follow-up to the 1992 bestselling classic Asian Americans —with all-new interviews that brilliantly illuminate the vibrant, ever-changing communities of Asian America



Asian Art Portfolio: Masterpieces from the Asia Society



The Assassination of Julius Caesar: A People’s History of Ancient Rome

Intrigue, murder, and class struggle at the heart of the Roman Empire



The Autonomy Myth: A Theory of Dependency

A brilliant exposé of the American myth of self-reliance and the reality of an interdependent society



Baby Mamas



Bad News: How America's Business Press Missed the Story of the Century

Leading scholars and journalists—including Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz, The Columbia Journalism Review's Dean Starkman, and New York Times  business writer Peter S. Goodman—assess the media's failure to see the financial crisis coming



A Badly Flawed Election: Debating Bush v. Gore, the Supreme Court, and American Democracy

America's leading constitutional scholars and historians debate the most controversial election in U.S. history



Bandits



Banishing the Beast: Sexuality and the Early Feminist



Barack Obama and the Crisis of Black Leadership (Glen Ford and Peter Gamble)



Barbed Wire: A Political History

From the devil’s rope to no man’s land, “A vital work of cultural criticism” (Publishers Weekly)



Bay of Pigs Declassified: The Secret CIA Report on the Invasion of Cuba



Before the Frost: A Linda Wallander Mystery

The internationally acclaimed crime writer introduces a young, new heroine with a familiar father



Being with Children: A High-Spirited Personal Account of Teaching Writing, Theater, and Videotape



Berenice Abbott: Changing New York

NEWLY REISSUED After being out of print for several years, a stunning book of photographs that was a Wall Street Journal, Business Week, and Newsday best Book of the Year



The Betrayal of Work: How Low-Wage Jobs Fail 30 Million Americans

NOW IN PAPERBACK The book Newsweek’s Anna Quindlen said “should be required reading for every presidential candidate and member of Congress”



Better to Reign in Hell: Inside the Raiders Fan Empire

A season with the infamous fans of the football team everyone loves to hate



Beyond Suspicion: A Novel

“A book you read in a single sitting” (Le Magazine Littéraire), here is a “story worthy of Hitchcock” (Paris Vogue), from one of the most promising French novelists to emerge since Michel Houellebecq



Beyond the Bake Sale: The Essential Guide to Family-School Partnerships

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL A practical, hands-on primer on helping schools and families work better together to improve children's education



Beyond the Echo Chamber: Reshaping Politics Through Networked Progressive Media

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL: A concise, paradigm-shifting strategy guide to achieving political impact via the progressive media



Big Blondes



The Big Eddy Club

Race, injustice, and serial murder in the deep south—Midnight In the Garden of Good and Evil with an investigative edge



Big History: From the Big Bang to the Present

Jared Diamond meets Stephen Hawking in a book that fits human history into the history of the universe, by an American Book Award winner



The Biodiversity Crisis: Losing What Counts

The fastest mass extinction of species in Earth’s history, intriguingly explored in an illustrated companion to the American Museum of Natural History’s permanent exhibit



Bitter Chocolate: The Dark Side of the World's Most Seductive Sweet

A shocking exposé of the little-known corruption and exploitation found at the heart of the multibillion-dollar cocoa industry – “Blood Diamonds” for chocolate



Bitterly Divided: The South's Inner Civil War

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



Black Against Empire: The Rise and Fall of the Black Panthers



Black Fire: The Making of an American Revolutionary



Black Heritage Sites: The North, Volume 1



Black Heritage Sites: The South, Volume 2



Black Judges on Justice: Pespective from the Bench



Black Popular Culture: Discussions in Contemporary Culture #8



Black Radical: The Education of an American Revolutionary

An absorbing, firsthand account of an African American’s struggle for equality in the decades after World War II, by a writer the Washington Post calls “Wolfean and Whitmanesque”



Black Teachers on Teaching



Blood and Faith: The Purging of Muslim Spain

In the tradition of Adam Hochschild’s King Leopold’s Ghost, a major new historical exposé with haunting resonance for the present, by a journalist whose previous book was called “a book for the ages” by the Boston Globe



Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water

NOW IN PAPERBACK From the internationally acclaimed environmentalist, an “engaging, eye-opening account” (The Indypendent) of the global movement for water justice, in the tradition of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring



Blue Gold: The Fight to Stop the Corporate Theft of the World’s Water

The internationally acclaimed story of the corporate takeover of our most basic resource and the inevitable global water crisis



The Body Hunters: Testing New Drugs on the World's Poorest Patients

NOW IN PAPERBACK An eye-opening look at big pharma’s unethical and exploitative drug trials in the global South—the true story behind The Constant Gardener



A Bomb in Every Issue: How the Short, Unruly Life of Ramparts Magazine Changed America

Now in paperback: A lavishly praised "lively history"  (Los Angeles Times) of Ramparts—the magazine that brought the New Left into American living rooms in the '60s and made an indelible imprint on American journalism



Bombing Civilians: A Twentieth-Century History

Now in paperback: the first comprehensive historical analysis of one of the great horrors of modern times, hailed by Frida Berrigan as "a vividly detailed and profoundly troubling history of war fought from the air"



Bombs and Bandwidth: The Emerging Relationship Between Information Technology and Security



The Breaking of the American Social Compact



Brecht's Mistress: A Novel

Winner  of the 2003 Prix Goncourt, a novel hailed by the Times Literary Supplement as "a delicate, elegiac tale of political failure and defeated love"



Bronzeville: Black Chicago in Pictures, 1941-1943

NOW IN PAPERBACK A powerful collection of WPA images of black Chicago's defining moment



Brown v. Board: The Landmark Oral Argument Before the Supreme Court

The transcripts, never before available to the general reading public, of “the most important American governmental act of any kind since the Emancipation Proclamation” (Louis Pollack, Yale University)



A Buffalo in the House: The True Story of a Man, an Animal, and the American West

Marley and Me meets All creatures great and small, as an ailing but lovable orphan buffalo joins a Santa Fe household



The Business of Journalism: Ten Leading Reporters and Editors on the Perils and Pitfalls of the Press



By the Sea

From the East African author of Paradise, which was short-listed for the Booker Prize, a spellbinding novel of seduction and betrayal



Capital Moves: RCA’s Seventy-Year Quest for Cheap Labor

NOW IN PAPERBACK the highly acclaimed account of one renowned company’s labor struggles in its rise to global power



Caribbean Slave Society and the Economy: A Student Reader



The Case for Make Believe: Saving Play in a Commercialized World

NOW IN PAPERBACK From the bestselling author of Consuming Kids, a clarion call for rescuing creative play from the grips of commercialism



Catholic Does Not Equal the Vatican: A Vision for Progressive Catholicism

A stirring manifest for progressive Catholics and a challenge to Vatican politics, from pioneering feminist Catholic Rosemary Ruethers—the next book in the acclaimed "Does Not Equal" series



Censoring Culture: Contemporary Threats to Free Expression

A bestselling art historian and a free speech advocate explore subtle new forms of censorship in the art world and beyond



Century of War: Politics, Conflict, and Society Since 1914



Challenging China: Struggle and Hope in an Era of Change

NOW IN PAPERBACK — A fascinating and complex insiders' portrait of contemporary life inside China, written by dissidents, activists, and journalists—in time for the historic 2008 Olympics, when the world's eyes will be on China



Chimes of Freedom: The Politics of Bob Dylan’s Art



China Pop: How Soap Operas, Tabloids, and Bestsellers Are Transforming a Culture



Chinatown, N.Y.: Labor and Politics, 1930–1950



Chinese America: The Untold Story of America's Oldest New Community

A sweeping portrait of one of America’s most distinctive communities from the bestselling author of The New Chinatown



The Chomsky-Foucault Debate: On Human Nature

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL two of the twentieth century’s most influential thinkers debate a perennial question



Christ the Jew: The Origins of Christology in Early Judaism



Chronicler of the Winds: A Novel

An award-winning new novel by the internationally acclaimed mystery writer



Cigarettes: Anatomy of an Industry from Seed to Smoke



The Citizen Machine: Governing by Television in 1950s America

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



Citizen You!: Helping Your Government Help Itself



City Kids, City Schools: More Reports from the Front Row

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL A follow-up to the classic collection on the realities of teaching and learning in urban schools



City Kids, City Teachers: Reports from the Front Row

PAPERBACK a classic collection exploding the stereotypes of city schools, reissued as a companion to City Kids, City Schools



A City Year: On the Streets and in the neighborhoods with Twelve Young Community Service Volunteers



CityWorks: Exploring Your Community: A workbook



Civil Wars: From L.A. to Bosnia



Class Notes: Posing as Politics and Other Thoughts on the American Scene

NOW IN PAPERBACK A “must read for thinking leftists” (Katha Pollitt of The Nation) from one of America’s most insightful intellectuals



The Class of ’75: Reflections on the Last Quarter of the 20th Century by Harvard Graduates



Classroom Conversations: A Collection of Classics for Parents and Teachers

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL An outstanding collection of classic readings on teaching and learning from Dewey to Delpit—the age-old ritual of the parent-teacher conference will never be the same again



The Coffee Book: Anatomy of an Industry from Crop to the Last Drop

REVISED AND UPDATED A compact guide to the beverage that keeps us running



The Cold War and the University: Toward an Intellectual History of the Postwar Years



Cold War Triumphalism: The Misuse of History After the Fall of Communism

NOW IN PAPERBACK The book that is provoking a major reexamination of the legacy of the cold war



The Color of Politics: Race and the Mainsprings of American Politics



The Color of Wealth: The Story Behind the U.S. Racial Wealth Divide

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL An eye-opening field guide to the wealth gap



Come Home with Me: A Multicultural Treasure Hunt



Coming of Age: Growing Up in the Twentieth Century

Inspired . . . the language spoken here is pure Terkel. —THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW



Coming of Age Around the World: A Multicultural Anthology

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL Twenty-four stories by renowned international authors chronicle the modern struggle for identity among young people around the globe



Coming of Age in America: A Multicultural Anthology

PAPERBACK The acne and ecstasy of adolescence, a multicultural collection of short stories and fiction excerpts that Library Journal calls “wonderfully diverse from the standard fare,” in a beautiful new edition



Coming of Age in the 21st Century: Growing Up in America Today

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL A follow-up to the critically acclaimed and bestselling multicultural collection of stories about growing up in America—with new selections for a new century



Coming to Terms: A Literary Response to Abortion



Communication Revolution: Critical Junctures and the Future of Media

NOW IN PAPERBACK A controversial critique of media studies from the writer Mark Crispin Miller calls "the greatest of our media historians"



The Condor Years: How Pinochet and His Allies Brought Terrorism to Three Continents

The headline-grabbing story of the covert, international “anti-terrorist” network responsible for South America’s worst human rights abuses



Confessions of an Argentine Dirty Warrior: A Firsthand Account of Atrocity

Published to coincide with the first Argentine war crimes trials, a new edition of what Eduardo Galeano calls “the best book about the worst crimes”



Conglomerates and the Media



Conned: How Millions Went to Prison, Lost the Vote, and Helped Send George W. Bush to the White House

The criminal disenfranchisement that affects millions of American citizens



The Conquest of Bread: 150 Years of Agribusiness in California

A sweeping analysis of California's agrarian history from 1850 to the present



Conspiracy in the Streets: The Extraordinary Trial of the Chicago Eight

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL On the stand with yippies, Black Panthers, and political activists at the conspiracy trial that defined the youth rebellion of the 1960s



The Consumer Society Reader



Consuming Kids: The Hostile Takeover of Childhood



Corruption



Cosmic Horizons: Astronomy at the Cutting Edge

Leading experts explain the discoveries of modern astrophysics in an illustrated companion to the American Museum of Natural History’s newly renovated Rose Center for Earth and Space



Creole Folktales



Crimes Against Humanity: The Struggle for Global Justice

The story of the rise of the human rights movement by the renowned international attorney, in a newly revised and expanded edition



Crimes of War: Guilt and Denial in the Twentieth Century

A controversial look at wartime atrocities, by a group of distinguished historians



The Crisis in American Trade Unions



The Crisis of Criticism



Critical Fictions: The Politics of Imaginative Writing: Discussions in Contemporary Culture #7



Critical Race Realism: Intersections of Psychology, Race, and Law

A new way of looking at our legal system-focused on the nexus of social science, race and the law – that takes the field of critical legal studies into the twenty-first century



Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings That Formed the Movement



Critical Views of September 11: Analyses from Around the World

Leading American social scientists examine the new world after September 11



Crossing into America: The New Literature of Immigration

A literary portrait of immigrant America including contributions from celebrated authors, young writers, and undocumented workers



Crossing the Tracks: How “Untracking” Can Save America's Schools



Crossroads: Art and Religion in American Life

Seven leading scholars and experts reveal the close ties between art and religion in American culture



Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962: A National Security Archive Documents Reader



The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters

NOW IN PAPERBACK “the most comprehensive account yet of the [CIA’s] activities between 1947 and 1967” (The New York Times)



Culture on the Brink: Ideologies of Technology: Discussions in Contemporary Culture #9



Culture Wars: Documents from the Recent Controversies in the Arts



Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor / Hiroshima / 9-11 / Iraq

Pulitzer Prize– and National Book Award–winning historian John Dower returns with a groundbreaking comparison of the four definitive acts of violence in our time



Customs in Common: Studies in Traditional Popular Culture



The Czar’s Madman



Dangerous Liaisons: Blacks, Gays, and the Struggle for Equality



A Dangerous Woman: The Graphic Biography of Emma Goldman

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL The anarchist and radical hero Emma Goldman, brought to vivid life in a graphic biography by an acclaimed artist



Daniel: A Novel

From the internationally bestselling author of the Kurt Wallander mysteries and The Man from Beijing, a deeply sympathetic, gripping tale of a young boy's harrowing odyssey from Africa to Sweden



The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World

A landmark study that offers an alternative history of the Cold War from the point of view of the world's poor



Daughters of the Dust: The Making of an African American Woman’s Film



Dead Cities: And Other Tales

A riveting exploration of the tensions between nature and the built environment, by a leading urbanist



Dead Man in Paradise: Unraveling a Murder from a Time of Revolution

The award-winning story of a nephew’s search for the truth behind his uncle’s murder— described by CBC Radio as “equal parts Ian Rankin, Jan Morris and Joan Didion”



Dear Bruno



The Decline of American Power: The U.S. in a Chaotic World

The internationally renowned theorist contends that the sun is setting on the American empire



Democracy: Discussions in Contemporary Culture #5



Depths: A Novel

A gripping, masterful novel from the world famous Henning Mankell, set off the coast of Sweden during World War I.



The Devil in Dover: An Insider’s Story of Dogma v. Darwin in Small-Town America

NOW IN PAPERBACK In the tradition of H.L. Mencken, a gifted reporter’s “unapologetic indictment of intelligent design, fundamentalist Christianity, and American journalism’s Insistence on objectivity in the face of clear untruths” (Columbia Journalism Review)



The Devil in Dover: An Insider’s Story of Dogma v. Darwin in Small-Town America



Diary of a Harlem Schoolteacher



Diet for a Dead Planet: Big Business and the Coming Food Crisis

NOW IN PAPERBACK A timely indictment of industrial agriculture's threat to the future of food, health, and the environment



A Different Shade of Gray: Midlife and Beyond in the Inner City

NOW IN PAPERBACK An original look at urban aging by the Robert F. Kennedy Book Prize winner



Digital Destiny: New Media and the Future of Democracy

The celebrated media advocate's clarion call for new media to serve the public instead of corporate interests—and what's involved in this high-stakes struggle



The Discipline of Hope: Learning from a Lifetime of Teaching



Discovering America: Travels in the Land of Guns, God, and Corporate Gurus

An outsider’s irreverent and piercing look at the world’s remaining superpower



Discussions in Contemporary Culture # 1



Dismantling Desegregation: The Quiet Reversal of Brown v. Board of Education



Division Street: America

A new paperback edition of the groundbreaking book that first made Studs Terkel a household name



Divorce: An Oral Portrait



The Dogs of Riga: A Kurt Wallander Mystery

Bringing the acclaimed series to a close, The Dogs of Riga takes Detective Kurt Wallander across the Baltic to a disintegrating Soviet Union



Dr. Seuss & Co. Go to War: The World War II Editorial Cartoons of America’s Leading Comic Artists

Now in paperback: The captivating World War II–era political cartoons of Dr. Seuss alongside the work of legendary cartoonists Saul Steinberg, Al Hirschfeld, and others



Dr. Seuss Goes to War: The World War II Editorial Cartoons of Theodor Seuss Geisel

NOW IN PAPERBACK The bestselling treasure trove of World War II political cartoons by Dr. Seuss



Dream: Re-imagining Progressive Politics in an Age of Fantasy

A twenty-first-century manifesto for the left—how we can draw upon popular fantasies to create an alternative politics through imagination and spectacle



The Dream Life: Movies, Media, and the Mythology of the Sixties

A brilliant cultural history detailing the fascinating relationship between movies and American society in the 1960s



Dreamland: America at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century



Drylongso: A Self-Portrait of Black America



Early Black Photographers



Earth: Inside and Out

Leading experts explain our planet in an illustrated companion to the acclaimed American Museum of Natural History’s Hall of Planet Earth



East to America: Korean American Life Stories



Economic Apartheid in America: A Primer on Economic Inequality and Insecurity

REVISED PAPERBACK Following the 2004 presidential election, a graphic portrait of the growing gap between the rich and everyone else in America



Economics for the Rest of Us: Debunking the Science That Makes Life Dismal

In a masterful and wonderfully accessible book—think Freakonomics and The Tipping Point —economist Moshe Adler does for economics what Howard Zinn has done for American history



Edge of the Knife: Police Violence in the Americas



Ellis Island



Ellis Island and the Peopling of America: The Official Guide



Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II



The Empire Strikes Out: How Baseball Sold U.S. Foreign Policy and Promoted the American Way Abroad

Mixing sharp political analysis and compelling lore, an eye-opening look at baseball’s relationship to American empire, from the revolutionary era to the present



The End of Privacy: How Total Surveillance Is Becoming a Reality



The End of the Line: How Overfishing Is Changing the World and What We Eat

Picking up where Cod left off, an “invaluable” (Financial Times) look at the global crisis of overfishing



Ending Poverty in America: How to Restore the American Dream

JOHN EDWARDS PUTS A SEMINAL ISSUE BACK ON THE MAP, PRESENTING BLUEPRINTS FOR ENDING POVERTY IN AMERICA



Enemy Aliens: Double Standards and Constitutional Freedoms in the War on Terrorism

A revised edition of the award-winning civil liberties scholar's condemnation of the USA Patriot Act



Enemy Combatant: My Imprisonment at Guantánamo, Bagram, and Kandahar

NOW IN PAPERBACK The “shocking firsthand account” (Chicago Sun-Times) of one man’s years inside the notorious American prison—and his Kafkaesque struggle to clear his name



English Is Broken Here: Notes on Cultural Fusion in the Americas



Epidemic!: The World of Infectious Disease

                                                                             



Equality and Democracy: A New Press Back-to-Basics Book



Essence of Camphor



The Essential Chomsky

In a single volume, the seminal writings of the world’s leading philosopher, linguist, and critic, published to coincide with his eightieth birthday



The Essential E.P.Thompson



The Essential Foucault: Selections from Essential Works of Foucault, 1954-1984

The latest book in The New Press’s essential series collects key texts from the influential French philosopher



The Essential Gunnar Myrdal

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL A comprehensive introduction to the world-renowned social scientist's political thought



The Essential Wallerstein



Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth



Eugène Atget: Unknown Paris



European Universalism: The Rhetoric of Power

How ideas such as civilization and progress have been used as a smoke screen for Western dominance, by the world-renowned sociologist



Evangelical Does Not Equal Republican . . . Or Democrat

A leader of the new generation of progressive evangelicals reclaims her faith from partisan politics, in this debut book in the acclaimed "Does Not Equal" series



Every Handgun Is Aimed at You: The Case for Banning Handguns

NOW IN PAPERBACK a powerful argument for banning handguns that “should be required reading for those who want to be better informed—whether they are for or against gun control" (Publishers Weekly)



Everyday Antiracism: Getting Real About Race in School

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL Leading experts offer concrete and realistic strategies for dealing with race in schools in a groundbreaking book that should become required reading for every teacher in the country



Evil Paradises: Dreamworlds of Neoliberalism

Eclectic thinkers, brought together by the bestselling author of City of Quartz, meditate on future worlds being created by unfettered capitalism



Evita: In My Own Words

A new edition of the controversial “deathbed manuscript” attributed to Eva Perón



Ex Mex: From Migrants to Immigrants

NOW IN PAPERBACK A “timely consideration” (Publishers Weekly) of the crucial, controversial, and complex issues surrounding Mexican immigration to the United States, by Mexico’s former foreign minister



Examined Life: Excursions with Contemporary Thinkers

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL Eight renowned thinkers take philosophy to the streets in interviews drawn from a 2008 Toronto International Film Festival premiere



Experiments in Knowing: Gender and Method in the Social Sciences



Exterminate All the Brutes": One Man's Odyssey into the Heart of Darkness and the Origins of European Genocide

PAPERBACK A new edition of the brilliant and unsettling intellectual history of Europe’s genocidal colonization of Africa



The Eye of the Leopard: A Novel

A haunting novel juxtaposing a man’s coming of age in Sweden with his life in Zambia, from the internationally bestselling author



The Fables of La Fontaine



Faceless Killers: A Kurt Wallander Mystery



Failed Transitions: The Eastern European Economy and Enviroment Since the Fall of Communism



Fakers: Hoaxers, Con Artists, Counterfeiters, and Other Great Pretenders

For anyone who has ever lied—or been lied to—true-life tales about faking, from Clifford Irving to Stephen Glass, by an award-winning writer



Fallout: The Environmental Consequences of the World Trade Center Collapse

What public officials failed to say about post–9/11 New York air



False Dawn: The Delusions of Global Capitalism



Families and Freedom: A Documentary History of African-American Kinship in the Civil War Era



Family Matters: Readings on Family Lives and the Law



Fatal Invention: How Science, Government, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century



Fear in Chile: Lives Under Pinochet

NOW IN PAPERBACK first-person accounts of life in Pinochet’s Chile—“the perfect epitaph to a violent dictatorship” (Library Journal).



Field Guide to the Global Economy

An eye-opening, twenty-first-century guide to the myths and realities of the international economy



Field Guide to the U.S. Economy: A Compact and Irreverent Guide to Economic Life in America

The twenty-first-century handbook to the myths and realities of the U.S. economy



The Fifth Act

The remarkable, final filmscripts of acclaimed director Ingmar Bergman, available in English for the first time



The Fifth Woman: A Kurt Wallander Mystery



Fighting Words: An Illustrated History of Newspaper Accounts of the Civil War

NOW IN PAPERBACK An intriguing picture of life during the Civil War, through the newspapers of the period



Final Test: The Battle for Adequacy in America’s Schools

NOW IN PAPERBACK An in-depth look at "the brave new world of school finance" (Education Week) and the latest struggle for equality in public education



Fires in the Bathroom: Advice for Teachers from High School Students

NOW IN PAPERBACK The acclaimed book of practical advice from students to their teachers



Fires in the Middle School Bathroom: Advice for Teachers from Middle Schoolers

The highly anticipated sequel to the bestselling Fires in the Bathroom - Filled with practical, honest advice from middle school students to their teachers



Firewall: A Kurt Wallander Mystery

Mystery in the “exquisite” (Los Angeles Times Book Review), internationally bestselling Kurt Wallander series



Firing Back: Against the Tyranny of the Market 2



The First American Revolution: Before Lexington and Concord

A bold new interpretation of America’s founding moment



A Floating City of Peasants: The Great Migration in Contemporary China

A journalist’s riveting, eyewitness account of the unprecedented movement of 120 million peasants from rural China to its cities, told from the migrants’ point of view



For Reasons of State

Chomsky’s major works now reissued by The New Press



Forbidden Workers: Illegal Chinese Immigrants and American Labor



Found Illusions



Founders: The People Who Brought You a Nation

Now in paperback: a "highly readable" (Library Journal) new history of America's revolution and nation building that will "delight readers" (Publisher's Weekly), from the bestselling author of Founding Myths



Founding Myths: Stories That Hide Our Patriotic Past

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Framing Innocence: A Mother's Photographs, a Prosecutor's Zeal, and a Small Town's Response

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Framing the Black Panthers: The Spectacular Rise of a Black Power Icon

A fascinating look at how the Black Panthers became symbols of black militancy in America



France Under the Germans: Collaboration and Compromise



Free at Last: A Documentary History of Slavery, Freedom, and the Civil War

A handsome new edition of an essential work by the groundbreaking historian of African American life in the nineteenth century



The Freedom: Shadows and Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq

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Freedom's Unfinished Revolution: An Inquiry into the Civil War and Reconstruction



The Freedoms We Lost: Consent and Resistance in Revolutionary America

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



The French and Their Revolution: Selected Writings



French Philosophy Since 1945: Problems, Concepts, Inventions, Postwar French Thought, Volume IV

The long-awaited final volume in The New Press Postwar French Thought Series, with excerpts from key works of the leading postwar French philosophers, from Sartre to Lacan



From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend: A Short, Illustrated History of Labor in the United States

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From Welfare State to Real Estate: Regime Change in New York City, 1974 to the Present

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Front Lines: Political Plays by American Women

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL From the country’s leading female playwrights, seven brilliant plays on the hot-button issues of our time



Fuller's Earth: A Day with Buckminster Fuller and the Kids

Perhaps the most lovable and personal portrait ever produced of visionary Buckminster Fuller--the man who has been called "the planet's friendly genius."



The Future Lasts Forever: A Memoir



Gay and Lesbian Stats: A Pocket Guide of Facts and Figures



Gender on Planet Earth

An iconoclastic feminist’s provocative analysis of gender inequality’s destructive effects on our society and our planet



The Genius of Impeachment: The Founders' Cure for Royalism

A sharp and eye-opening argument that impeachment is an essential American institution



The German Army and Genocide: Crimes Against War Prisoners, Jews, and Other Civilians, 1939–1944



Getting Ghost: Two Young Lives and the Struggle for the Soul of an American City

An intimate and revealing look at the lives of two young black drug dealers in Detroit, and a bracing and original analysis of the forces that shape their world, by a rising young scholar



Giants of Jazz

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The Gift Relationship: From Human Blood to Social Policy



Global Capitalism

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Global Finance at Risk: The Case for International Regulation



Global Inc.: An Atlas of the Multinational Corporation

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The Global Sweatshop



Globalization and Its Discontents: Essays on the New Mobility of People and Money



God Needs No Passport: Immigrants and the Changing American Religious Landscape

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Going Public: Schooling for a Diverse Democracy



Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage

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Good Cops: The Case for Preventive Policing

A new, preventive approach to reducing crime from the renowned expert on policing



Good Courts: The Case for Problem-Solving Justice

How innovative judges and attorneys are transforming American courts



“The Good War": An Oral History of World War II

  



Grand Illusion: The Myth of Voter Choice in a Two-Party Tyranny

A smart, provocative, and wonderfully entertaining analysis of our stifling two-party system and the importance of third-party and Independent candidates—from Ralph Nader’s campaign manager



Greening International Law



Gristle: From Factory Farms to Food Safety (Thinking Twice About the Meat We Eat)

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Group Dynamics: Family Portraits and Scenes of Everyday Life at the New-York Historical Society



Growing Up Gay/Growing Up Lesbian: A Literary Anthology



Growing Up Poor: A Literary Anthology



Guantánamo: The War on Human Rights

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Guests and Aliens



Gun Show Nation: Gun Culture and American Democracy

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Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression

Elegant new paperback editions of two of Studs Terkel’s classic oral histories



Harlem on My Mind: Cultural Capital of Black America, 1900–1968

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Hatchet Jobs: Writings on Contemporary Fiction

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The Health of Nations: Why Inequality Is Harmful to Your Health

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Hell No: Your Right to Dissent in 21st-Century America

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Help Wanted: Tales from the First Job Front



Her First American: A Novel

 



The Herb Kohl Reader: Awakening the Heart of Teaching

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Hidden Agendas



Historians in Trouble: Plagiarism, Fraud, and Politics in the Ivory Tower

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Histories: French Constructions of the Past, Postwar French Thought, Volume 1



History in the Making: An Absorbing Look at How American History Has Changed in the Telling over the Last 200 Years

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History Lessons: How Textbooks from Around the World Portray U.S. History

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A History of Bombing

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Hitler’s Exiles: Personal Stories of the Flight from Nazi Germany to America



Home Fronts: A Wartime America Reader

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Hoodwinked: The Documents That Reveal How Bush Sold Us a War

Read the actual intelligence reports (not the spin)—and make up your own mind



Hooked: Five Addicts Challenge Our Misguided Drug Rehab System

NOW IN PAPERBACK “A landmark work on what the American Medical Association has identified as our nation’s most widespread public health problem” (San Francisco Chronicle)



Hope Dies Last: Keeping the Faith in Troubled Times

The latest oral history from the unrivaled master of the genre



Hospital: An Oral History



How Kindergarten Came to America: Friedrich Froebel’s Radical Vision of Early Childhood Education

Celebrated education reformer Herbert Kohl introduces a series of classics in progressive education to a new generation



How the Hindus Became Jews



How to Read a Secret Document: From Spy Photos and Wiretaps to Offshore Balance Sheets



Husband of a Fanatic: A Personal Journey Through India, Pakistan, Love, and Hate

A lyrical journey into the heart of hatred



I Die, But My Memory Lives On: The World AIDS Crisis and the Memory Book Project

Internationally bestselling mystery author Henning Mankell explores the new African tradition of memory books, written by parents dying of AIDS for their children



If I Could Write This in Fire: An Anthology of Literature from the Caribbean



If You Lived Here: The City in Art, Theory, and Social Activism: Discussions in Contemporary Culture #6



The Impact of Inequality: How to Make Sick Societies Healthier

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In America’s Court: How a Civil Lawyer Who Likes to Settle Stumbled into a Criminal Trial

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In Time of War: Hitler's Terrorist Attack on America

A forgotten episode of World War II, the Supreme Court case it sparked, and the precedent it set



Industry and Empire: The Birth of the Industrial Revolution



Inequality Matters: The Growing Economic Divide in America and Its Poisonous Consequences

Leading American scholars and activists explore the question our leaders have been working overtime to ignore



The Infernal Machine: A History of Terrorism

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Information Feudalism: Who Owns the Knowledge Economy?

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Inside U.S.A.



Inside Urban Teaching



Interesting Times: A Twentieth-Century Life

Wonderfully written, impeccably researched biographies or memoirs of the men of the 20th century



International Solidarity



Intimacy and Terror: Soviet Diaries of the 1930s



Inventing the Axis of Evil: The Truth About North Korea, Iran, and Syria

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The Invisible Heart: Economics and Family Values

A brilliant new approach to the economics of caregiving, from the MacArthur Award–winning economist



Invisible Punishment: The Collateral Consequences of Mass Imprisonment

A wide-ranging look at the true cost to society of our current approach to criminal justice, from the nation's foremost criminologist



Iran: A People Interrupted

NOW IN PAPERBACK a deeply informed political and cultural narrative of a country thrust into the international spotlight



The Iran-Contra Scandal: The Declassified History



Iraq: The Logic of Withdrawal

A forceful argument for the immediate withdrawal of troops from Iraq



Iraq and the Lessons of Vietnam: Or, How Not to Learn from the Past

Leading historians tease out the connections between the Vietnam War and the Iraq War—and point to the many lessons that went unlearned



Islam Does Not Equal Fundamentalism



Islam Explained

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Italian Shoes: A Novel

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I’m Gone: A Novel



Jane Fonda's Words of Politics and Passion

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Jane Fonda’s War: A Political Biography of an Antiwar Icon

An antidote to the "Hanoi Jane" myth, the first account of the celebrated actress's antiwar activism



Japan at War: An Oral History

PAPERBACK A timely fifteenth anniversary reissue of a “deeply moving book” (Studs Terkel) that portrays the Japanese experience during World War II in all its complexity



Japan in War and Peace: Selected Essays



Jean-Paul Sartre: A Life

The internationally acclaimed biography of Sartre in celebration of the 100th anniversary of his birth



Jews and American Comics: An Illustrated History of an American Art Form

A treasure trove of Jewish comic book art by both acknowledge masters and little known-stars, from Rube Goldberg to Aline Kominsky Crumb



Jews for Buchanan: Did You Hear the One About the Theft of the American Presidency?

A stinging, laugh-inducing look at how George W. Bush stole the 2000 presidential election, in words and pictures



Judaism Does Not Equal Israel

A profound and provocative challenge to unquestioned Jewish support for Israel and its policies from the internationally renowned Jewish thinker Marc H. Ellis—the latest volume in the acclaimed Does Not Equal Series



Justice Talking: Censoring the Web: Leading Advocates Debate Today’s Most Controversial Issues

Prominent attorneys debate web censorship and school vouchers in the first  two volumes of a compelling new book-and-CD series inspired by the popular National Public Radio program Justice Talking



Justice Talking: School Vouchers: Leading Advocates Debate Today’s Most Controversial Issues

Prominent attorneys debate web censorship and school vouchers in the first  two volumes of a compelling new book-and-CD series inspired by the popular National Public Radio program Justice Talking



Keeping Down the Black Vote: Race and the Demobilization of American Voters

A controversial examination of how our political system, despite “Get out the Vote” rhetoric, works to suppress the vote-especially the votes of African Americans



Kennedy’s Brain: A Novel

Internationally bestselling novelist Henning Mankell delivers a terrifying thriller inspired by the tragedy of the AIDS epidemic in Africa



Kill Khalid: The Failed Mossad Assassination of Khalid Mishal and the Rise of Hamas

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



The Kissinger Transcripts: The Top-Secret Talks with Beijing and Moscow



Knowledges: Culture, Counterculture, Subculture



Korean War



Koretsky Prints



Labor Pains: What the Lessons of the Past Can Tell Us About How to Create a Better Future for Working People in America



The Land Where the Blues Began

Winner of a 1993 National Book Critics Circle award, a rollicking memoir of the legendary folklorist's journey into blues country



The Last Friend: A Novel

From the winner of the 2004 Impac Prize, a classic story of friendship and betrayal



The Last Innocent White Man in America: And Other Writings



The Last Three Miles: Politics, Murder, and the Construction of America's First Superhighway

In the tradition of Robert Caro’s The Power Broker, a sweeping, investigative history of the building of the road connecting Manhattan to the rest of the country



Latin America After Neoliberalism: Turning the Tide in the 21st Century?

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL A primer on the social and economic changes sweeping across contemporary Latin America



Law and History: The Evolution of the American Legal System



Law in a Lawless Land: Diary of a Limpieza in Colombia



Law Lit: From Atticus Finch to The Practice

NOW IN PAPERBACK The collection of fiction and poetry that Christopher Buckley called "a brilliant compendium of writing about the law, by one of the coolest, hippest, and smartest legal brains in the business"



Lawyers: A Critical Reader



Legal Lynching: The Death Penalty and America’s Future

An urgent, eloquent call for the abolition of the death penalty in America, from the father and son who are leading the fight against state-sponsored execution



Lesbians, Gay Men, and the Law (1st E): A Reader



Less Safe, Less Free: Why America Is Losing the War on Terror

NOW IN PAPERBACK — Winner of the first Roy C. Palmer Civil Liberties prize, the book Zbigniew Brzezinski calls "a timely and unsparing exposure of the disastrous consequences of the 'war on terror' demagogy of the Bush administration"



Lessons of Empire: Imperial Histories and American Power

A timely exploration of one of the big geopolitical questions of our time



Let the Good Times Roll: Prostitution and the U.S. Military in Asia



Let's Get Free: A Hip-Hop Theory of Justice

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



Letters of Transit: Reflections of Exile, Identity, Language, and Loss



The Lexicon of Labor: More Than 500 Key Terms, Biographical Sketches, and Historical Insights Concerning Labor in America

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



Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong



Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

A tenth anniversary commemorative hardcover edition of James W. Loewen’s classic retelling of American history



Lies My Teacher Told Me About Christopher Columbus: What Your History Books Got Wrong

The American book award winner’s long out-of-print, myth-busting poster book, sure to be of interest to the million-plus buyers of Lies My Teacher Told Me



A Life in Medicine: A Literary Anthology



Life Isn’t All Ha Ha Hee Hee



Lift Every Voice: The NAACP and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement

Now in paperback: an epic narrative of the struggle against injustice, hailed as "the definitive history of the NAACP" by Henry Louis Gates Jr.



Like a Hurricane: The Indian Movement from Alcatraz to Wounded Knee



Lines of Fate: A Novel



Literary Debate: Texts and Contexts, Postwar French Thought, Volume II

Now available in paperback, key texts from leading theorists in postwar French literary criticism.



Literature from the "Axis of Evil": Writing from Iran, Iraq, North Korea, and Other Enemy Nations

NOW IN PAPERBACK “The book every American should read this year.” —The Bloomsbury Review



Lives We Carry with Us: Profiles of Moral Courage

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"



The Living Wage: Building a Fair Economy



Lonesome Rangers: Homeless Minds, Promised Lands, Fugitive Cultures

An exciting and far reaching new book on writers and exile by the leading literary critic John Leonard.



The Long Road to Baghdad: A History of U.S. Foreign Policy from the 1970s to the Present

The renowned diplomatic historian looks back at the ideas, policies, and decisions that led from Vietnam to the Iraq war and to America's disastrous new role in the Middle East



Looking Left: Socialism in Europe After the Cold War



Losing Our Cool: Uncomfortable Truths About Our Air-Conditioned World (and Finding New Ways to Get Through the Summer)

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



Lost Liberties: Ashcroft and the Assault on Personal Freedom



The Lost Soul of Higher Education: Corporatization, the Assault on Academic Freedom, and the End of the American University

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



Low Pay, High Profile: The Global Push for Fair Labor

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL Anti-sweatshop activist and commentator Andrew Ross reports on the inventiveness of low-pay campaigners around the world



Lula and the Workers Party in Brazil

A new edition examining the electoral victory and record of the left government in Latin America’s largest country



The Lure of the Local: Senses of Place in a Multicentered Society

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Made in America: Immigrant Students in Our Public Schools

PAPERBACK with a new introduction by author Laurie Olsen, this timely reissue probes the challenges facing teachers and immigrant students in our public schools



Making a Killing: The Business Of Guns in America



Making History: Writings on History and Culture



Making Love: A Novel



The Making of the Soviet System: Essays in the Social History of Interwar Russia



Making Peace with the Planet



Making Work Pay: America After Welfare

Leading experts and journalists offer an incisive, wide-ranging critique of welfare reform



The Man Who Smiled: A Kurt Wallander Mystery

At last the long–awaited fourth mystery in the internationally bestselling Kurt Wallander series



Manifesto for a New World Order

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The Mask of Motherhood: How Becoming a Mother Changes Everything and Why We Pretend It Doesn't



The Match: A Novel

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Math and Science Across Cultures: Activities and Investigations from the Exploratorium

Innovative, hands-on math and science activities of many cultures, from one of the world’s foremost science museums



A Matter of Law: A Memoir of Struggle in the Cause of Equal Rights

A major new memoir by the man who argued Brown v. Board



A Matter of Opinion



May It Please the Court: Live Recordings and Transcripts of Landmark Oral Arguments Made Before the Supreme Court Since 1955

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May It Please the Court: Arguments on Abortion: Live Recordings and Transcripts of Supreme Court Oral Arguments on Reproductive Rights



May It Please the Court: Courts, Kids, and the Constitution: Live Recordings and Transcripts of Sixteen Supreme Court Oral Arguments on the Constitutional Rights of Students and Teachers



May It Please the Court: The First Amendment: Live Recordings and Transcripts of the Oral Arguments Made Before the Supreme Court in Sixteen Key First Amendment Cases



May It Please the Court: The First Amendment: Transcripts of the Oral Arguments Made Before the Supreme Court in Sixteen Key First Amendment Cases



The Maze of Fear: Security and Migration After 9/11

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL Migration and security after 9/11 from the country's leading social scientists



McLibel: Burger Culture on Trial



Media and Empire (McChesney & Foster)



Mexican Lives



The Mexican Revolution

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The Mexican Shock: Its Meaning for the United States



Minding the Store: Great Writing About Business, from Tolstoy to Now

Entertaining and illuminating literary selections that explore the ethical quandaries of the workplace, collected by the Pulitzer prize-winning author of the Moral Lives of Children



Mining the Museum: Rethinking the Institution



Mismeasuring Our Lives: Why GDP Doesn't Add Up

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The Missing



Mixed Blessings: New Art in a Multicultural America



Modern Metropolis: Artists’ Images of New York from the Museum of the City of New York



A Moment of War: A Memoir of the Spanish Civil War



The Monkey Suit: And Other Short Fiction on African Americans and Justice



Monkfish Moon: Short Stories



The Monster at Our Door: The Global Threat of Avian Flu

From the acclaimed writer The Nation calls the "master of disaster prose," a terrifying forecast of a new global threat



The Moral Underground: How Ordinary Americans Subvert an Unfair Economy

The untold story of a silent movement for economic justice—led by ordinary middle-class Americans who bend the rules to help the working poor



Movies on Trial: The Legal System on the Silver Screen



Moyers on America: A Journalist and His Times

Bill Moyers's vision for America in this crucial election year



Mr. Galloway Goes to Washington: The Brit Who Set Congress Straight About Iraq

A rousing account from the British MP who took D.C. by storm



Muckraking!: The Journalism That Changed America

Over 100 classics of American investigative journalism, from Tom Paine to Bob Woodward



Muhammad

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My Father's War: A Novel



My Phantom Husband



Myths of Free Trade: Why American Trade Policy Has Failed

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Naming the Jungle: A Novel



The Native American Look Book: Art and Activities for Kids from The Brooklyn Museum



Nazi Anti-Semitism: From Prejudice to the Holocaust

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The Nazis: A Warning from History

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The New American Crisis: Radical Analyses of the Problems Facing America Today



The New American Empire: A 21st Century Teach-In on U.S. Foreign Policy

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The New Americans: Seven Families Journey to Another Country

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The New Blue Media: How Michael Moore, MoveOn.org, Jon Stewart and Company Are Transforming Progressive Politics

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The New Education: Progressive Education One Hundred Years Ago Today

Classics in progressive education—a series edited by Herbert Kohl



The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

A bold and innovative argument that mass incarceration amounts to a devastating system of racial control, by a rising legal star



The New Nuclear Danger: George W. Bush’s Military-Industrial Complex

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The New Press Education Reader: Leading Educators Speak Out

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL An outstanding collection of the best writing from America’s foremost voices in progressive education



The New Press Guide to Multicultural Resources for Young Readers



The New Protectionism



The New Victorians: Poverty, Politics, and Propaganda in Two Gilded Ages

A controversial history of the Victorian roots of today’s conservative anti-welfare crusaders



The New War Business



Next Year in Jerusalem: Everyday Life in a Divided Land

From a pioneering Israeli human rights activist, a stirring memoir on life in the troubled region



No Equal Justice: Race and Class in the American Criminal Justice System

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Nobel Lectures: From the Literature Laureates, 1986 to 2006

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The North China Lover: A Novel

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North Korea: Another Country

America’s leading historian on Korea offers nuanced analysis that demolishes familiar generalizations



Not Only for Myself: Identity, Politics, and the Law



Not Written in Stone: Learning and Unlearning American History Through 200 Years of Textbooks

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



Notes on the Occupation: Palestinian Lives

A rare, inside look at real life in the West Bank, introduced by one of the world’s leading Palestinian intellectuals



Nothing to Hide: Mental Illness in the Family

A compelling collection of family photographs and moving first-person narratives about people living with mental illness



Nuclear Power Is Not the Answer

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Objectivity and Liberal Scholarship



Oil: A Concise Guide to the Most Important Product on Earth

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Oil: The Worldwide Conflict Over Energy



On Empire: America, War, and Global Supremacy

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On History



On Language: Chomsky's Classic Works Language and Responsibility and Reflections on Language

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On Television



On the Beaten Track: Tourism, Art, and Place



On the Edge of the New Century

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One Hundred Jobs: A Panorama of Work in the American City



One Hundred Years of Socialism: The West European Left in the Twentieth Century



One Step Behind: A Kurt Wallander Mystery

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The One That Got Away: Short Stories

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One World or None: A Report to the Public on the Full Meaning of the Atomic Bomb

A timely reissue of a 1946 New York Times bestseller, in which the world’s leading nuclear scientists (including five Nobel laureates) warn of the dangers of a nuclear world



Only Love Can Break Your Heart


"With an intelligence and unsparing lucidity reminiscent of Joan Didion’s work circa Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1968), Mr. Samuels has written some of the best long-form literary journalism of the past decade."

—Michael Washburn,The New York Observer



Open Fire: The Open Magazine Pamphlet Series Anthology



The Origins of Nazi Violence

A leading social scientist’s depiction of the Holocaust as the culmination of liberal, European modernization



The Other Israel: Voices of Refusal and Dissent

NOW IN PAPERBACK Israeli citizens disavow their government’s current policies



Other People’s Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom

An updated edition of the classic revolutionary analysis of the role of race in the classroom



Other People’s Houses: A Novel

An immensely impressive, unclassifiable book.  —New Republic



Other People’s Money: The Corporate Mugging of America

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Our Unfree Press: 100 Years of Radical Media Criticism

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Over Exposed: Essays on Contemporary Photography



Overlay: Contemporary Art and Art of Prehistory



P.S.: Further Thoughts from a Lifetime of Listening

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL — The Pulitzer prize-winning oral historian and nonagenarian makes a selection of his favorite unpublished writings, broadcasts, and interviews



Paradise



Paradise Lost: California's Experience, America's Future



Partial Recall: Photographs of Native North Americans



Past Imperfect: A Museum Looks at Itself



Paul Robeson: A Biography

A monumental and powerfully affecting portrait of one of this century’s most notable performers, political radicals, and champions of racial equality.                                            



A People's History of the Civil War: Struggles for the Meaning of Freedom

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A People's History of the United States: Volume I: American Beginnings to Reconstruction

An abridged classroom edition of Howard Zinn's bestselling history of the United States, with teaching materials to accompany each chapter            



A People's History of World War II: The World's Most Destructive Conflict, as Told by the People Who Lived Through It

Paperback original: The most stirring interviews, photographs, letters, oral histories, and other first-person accounts of World War II—a major new resource for classroom teachers and general readers alike



A People’s Art History of the United States



A People’s History of Poverty in America

A sweeping, revelatory history of poverty in America from the seventeenth century to today, told through the eyes and experiences of the poor themselves



A People’s History of Sports in the United States: 250 Years of Politics, Protest, People, and Play

From the author Robert Lipsyte calls “The best young sportswriter in America”, a rollicking, rebellious, myth-busting history of sports in America that puts politics in the ring with pop culture



A People’s History of the American Revolution: How Common People Shaped the Fight for Independence

The best single-volume history of the Revolution I have read.
—Howard Zinn



A People’s History of the United States: Abridged Teaching Edition



A People’s History of the United States: Volume II: The Civil War to the Present

An abridged classroom edition of Howard Zinn's bestselling history of the United States, with teaching materials to accompany each chapter



A People’s History of the United States: The Wall Charts

PAPERBACK/POSTERS Zinn’s classic work in its most innovative format, the long out-of-print myth-busting posters



A People’s History of the Vietnam War

NOW IN PAPERBACK The war in Indochina as seen by those who fought on both sides



Perpetuating Power: How Mexican Presidents Were Chosen

NOW IN PAPERBACK The widely acclaimed explication of Mexican politics from “one of the most insightful Mexican intellectuals” (The New York Times Book Review)



Piano: A Novel

The Prix Goncourt winner brings Dante to today’s Paris



Picturing Us: African American Identity in Photography



A Piece of My Heart/Pedacito de mi corazón: The Art of Carmen Lomas Garza



Pig Tails ’n Breadfruit: A Culinary Memoir



Pig Tales: A Novel of Lust & Transformation



The Pink Glass Swan: Selected Feminist Essays on Art



The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability

NOW IN PAPERBACK Updated with newly declassified documents, a Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2003



A Plague of Prisons: The Epidemiology of Mass Incarceration in America

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



The Play of the Unmentionable: An Installation by Joseph Kosuth



Playing in the Light: A Novel

NOW IN PAPERBACK Praised in the pages of the New Yorker and Oprah’s O Magazine, a wonderfully nuanced exploration of life in post-apartheid South Africa



Political Awakenings: Conversations with History

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL: Stories of insight and inspiration from twenty leaders and thinkers who have changed the world—including Howard Zinn, Amira Hass, and
Ron Dellums



The Politics of Culture: Policy Perspectives for Individuals, Institutions, and Communities



Portraits of Native Americans: Photographs from the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition



Possessing the Secret of Joy: A Novel

PAPERBACK The stunning New York Times bestseller, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Color Purple, reissued in a handsome new edition with a brand-new preface



Power: Essential Works of Foucault, 1954-1984, Volume 3

NOW IN PAPERBACK The final volume in the definitive collection of Foucault’s articles, interviews, and seminars.



Power and Culture: Essays on the American Working Class



Power Play: The Fight to Control the World’s Electricity

The story behind the debacle of today’s power outages and soaring electricity costs



Pretensions to Empire: Notes on the Criminal Folly of the Bush Administration

NOW IN PAPERBACK The distinguished essayist’s incisive critique of the Bush regime—a must-have book for political junkies and Lewis Lapham fans



Priceless: On Knowing the Price of Everything and the Value of Nothing

A timely and much needed corrective to the current infatuation with cost benefit analysis and the derelict logic used to defend it



Prison Profiteers: Who Makes Money from Mass Incarceration

NOW IN PAPERBACK An eye-opening and troubling look at the vast network of corporations and individuals that turn a profit by keeping 2.4 million Americans imprisoned



Problems of Knowledge and Freedom

From interpreting the world to changing it, a synthesis of Chomsky’s early work on philosophy, linguistics, and politics



Professor Martens’ Departure



Profiles in Injustice: Why Racial Profiling Cannot Work

Why racial profiling is not just wrong, but ineffective too



Prophets of Protest: Reconsidering the History of American Abolitionism

The first collection of original contributions on American abolitionism to appear in a generation



Protest and Survival: Essays for E.P. Thompson



Protest Nation: Words That Inspired a Century of American Radicalism

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



The Public School and the Private Vision: A Search for America in Education and Literature

Celebrated education reformer Herbert Kohl introduces a series of classics in progressive education to a new generation



The Pyramid: And Four Other Kurt Wallander Mysteries

The missing piece of the internationally bestselling Kurt Wallander mystery series: the story of Wallander’s beginnings, told in five gripping short mysteries



A Queer Reader: 2500 Years of Male Homosexuality



Rabble: A People's History of War and Rebellion in Colonial North America

A bold new "bottom-up" history of American warfare, from the perspective of common people who worked, fought, bled, and died in the creation of prerevolutionary America



Race: How Blacks and Whites Think and Feel About the American Obsession

The kind of book that happens along once in a long while.
—The New York Times



A Race Against Death: Peter Bergson, America, and the Holocaust

The unknown story of the man who led America’s most effective campaign to rescue victims of the Holocaust, from the bestselling historian



Race to Incarcerate

An updated account of the explosion in America's prison population



Race to Incarcerate: A Graphic Retelling



Racism Explained to My Daughter

NOW IN PAPERBACK The prizewinning book of advice about racism from bestselling author to his daughter, introduced by BILL COSBY



Radical Acts: Collected Political Plays

Four inspiring, bold political plays that bring history alive as theater, from the Bancroft prize-winning historian, cultural critic, and public intellectual



Radical Hollywood: The Untold Story Behind America’s Favorite Movies

A controversial and fascinating rewriting of the history of cinema’s golden age



The Radical Reader: A Documentary History of the American Radical Tradition

Key documents illustrate the richness of the American radical tradition



Ravel: A Novel

The last years of the great French composer’s life as envisioned by “the master magician of the contemporary French novel” (The Washington Post )



Rebellion in Chiapas: An Historical Reader



Recipe of Memory: Five Generations of Mexican Cuisine



Recodings: Art, Spectacle, Cultural Politics



Rediscovering Jacob Riis: Exposure Journalism and Photography in Turn-of-the-Century New York

A provocative new illustrated history of the famed early chronicler of New York’s immigrant poor, seen here as an opportunistic, camera-toting social reformer whose legacy lives on



Rednecks & Bluenecks: The Politics of Country Music

NOW IN PAPERBACK An up-close-and-personal take on country music’s vast political discord, hailed by The Economist as “excellent”



Reef



Regime Change Begins at Home



Religion Dispatches essays



Remaking History: Discussions in Contemporary Culture #4



Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Tell About Life in the Segregated South

NOW IN PAPERBACK The sequel to Remembering Slavery, a groundbreaking collection of interviews about the segregation-era South



Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk About Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Emancipation



Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk About Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Emancipation

PAPERBACK/CDS “Powerful and intense” (Atlanta Journal-Constitution) and “a minor miracle” (Ted Koppel, Nightline), the groundbreaking book-and-audio set is available on MP3 audio CDs



Remembering the Civil Rights Movement



Rethinking Schools: An Agenda for Change



The Return of the Dancing Master



Revolutionaries

Back in print, groundbreaking essays from “the best known living historian in the world” (The Times, London)



Rich Media, Poor Democracy: Communication Politics in Dubious Times



The Rise and Rise of Richard B. Cheney: Unlocking the Mysteries of the Most Powerful Vice President in American History

NOW IN PAPERBACK The indispensable portrait of the man who still runs the world



Road from ar Ramadi: The Private Rebellion of Staff Sergeant Camilo Mejía

The inspiring story of a soldier who fought in Iraq and refused to return



Robes of Splendor: Native North American Painted Buffalo Hides



The Romantics: England in a Revolutionary Age



Room Service: Reports from Eastern Europe



The Runner: A True Account of the Amazing Lies and Fantastical Adventures of the Ivy League Impostor James Hogue

A classic American story of a homeless drifter who starts a new life by making up a fake identity and gaining admission to Princeton University, based on the acclaimed New Yorker article



Running: A Novel

A beautifully crafted portrait of the legendary Czech runner Emil Zátopek, by “the master magician of the contemporary french novel” (The Washington Post )



Russia/USSR/Russia: The Drive and Drift of a Superstate



The Rust Belt



Sacred Matters: Celebrity Worship, Sexual Ecstasies, the Living Dead, and Other Signs of Religious Life in the United States

Now in paperback: A "thought-provoking" (Relevant Magazine) look at the ways religious practice is found in the most unlikely (and secular) institutions



The Sandglass



Saving State U: Why We Must Fix Public Higher Education

How to rescue public higher education in the United States, by the nationally known economist



Say It Loud: Great Speeches on Civil Rights and African American Identity

Following the pathbreaking Say it Plain—a book and MP3 set that allows Americans to relive the oratorical highlights of the modern struggle for racial equality and civil rights



Say It Plain: A Century of Great African American Speeches

NOW IN PAPERBACK An affordable text-only edition of a century of public speeches by the nation's greatest African American orators



A Schoolmaster of the Great City: A Progressive Educator’s Pioneering Vision for Urban Schools

Classics in progressive education—a series edited by Herbert Kohl



Schwarzenegger Syndrome: Politics and Celebrity in the Age of Contempt

An irreverent look at the rise and rise of California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, from the journalist the New York Times calls a “huge satirical talent”



Searching for Ethics



The Second Amendment in Law and History: Historians and Constitutional Scholars on the Right to Bear Arms

A demystifying guide to the complex debates surrounding the constitutional right to bear arms



Secret Identities: The Asian American Superhero Anthology

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL A groundbreaking graphic collection that explores Asian American culture, identity, and history through all-new superhero comics



See You in Court: How the Right Made America a Lawsuit Nation

NOW IN PAPERBACK — A Chicago Tribune Favorite Book of 2007—a bold new argument that conservative policy has led to America's lawsuit culture, from the National Books Critics Circle Award finalist



The Senator and the Sharecropper: The Freedom Struggles of James O. Eastland and Fannie Lou Hamer

The epic struggle for Black equality in the 20th century, told through the deeply-intertwined life histories of the staunch segregationist and his sharecropper nemesis



Sensible Justice: Alternatives to Prison



Serving the Word: Literalism in America from the Pulpit to the Bench

NOW IN PAPERBACK the leading anthropologist’s “accessible, timely, and significant” (Kirkus Reviews) exploration of America’s search for certainty



The Sex Side of Life": Mary Ware Dennett's Pioneering Battle for Birth Control and Sex Education



Sex, Sin, and Blasphemy: A Guide to America’s Censorship Wars



Shades of L.A.: Pictures from Ethnic Family Albums



Shadow of the Sixties: Coming of Age After the Baby Boomers



Shadows of a Childhood: A Novel

PAPERBACK For everyone who read Suite Française and wants to know more, a beautiful reissue of Irène Némirovsky’s daughter’s searing story of her parents’ disappearance



Shakespeare's Kitchen: Stories

The much anticipated new book from the acclaimed author of Other People’s Houses and Her First American—Lore Segal’s first major work of fiction in twenty years



Shared Visions: Native American Painters and Sculptors in the Twentieth Century



Shattering the Glass: The Remarkable History of Women’s Basketball

The first major history of the most popular women’s team sport in the United States



She Would Not Be Moved: How We Tell the Story of Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott

NOW IN PAPERBACK The prizewinning educator's brilliant and timely meditation on the misleading ways in which we teach the story of Rosa Parks



Shooting Back from the Reservation: A Photographic View of Life by Native American Youth



Should We Burn Babar?: Essays on Children’s Literature and the Power of Stories

PAPERBACK A new edition of the prizewinning educator's thoughts on the politics of children's literature, including a new essay written for this volume



Sidetracked: A Kurt Wallander Mystery



The Skin That We Speak: Thoughts on Language and Culture in the Classroom

The author of Other People’s Children joins with other experts to examine the relationship between language and power in the classroom



The Skull Measurer's Mistake: And Other Portraits of Men and Women Who Spoke Out Against Racism



Slanting the Story: The Forces That Shape the News



Slavery and Public History: The Tough Stuff of American Memory

Preeminent historians explore how the most controversial aspects of the American past are documented



Slavery in New York

A definitive account of the hitherto hidden slave past of America's first city



Slaves Without Masters: The Free Negro in the Antebellum South

A handsome new edition of an essential work by the groundbreaking historian of African American Life in the nineteenth century



Smoke and Mirrors: Violence, Television, and Other American Cultures



The Sneaker Book: Anatomy of an Industry and an Icon



The Social History of the Third Reich, 1933-1945



Social Stratification in the United States: The American Profile Poster

PAPERBACK/POSTER A much anticipated update of the classic book and poster set depicting who owns what, who makes how much, who works where, and who lives with whom



The Society and Population Health Reader: Volume I: Income Inequality and Health



The Society and Population Health Reader: Volume II: A State and Community Perspective



Sociology Is a Martial Art: Political Writings by Pierre Bourdieu

Paperback original: An essential collection of political essays, interviews, and lectures by the pioneering French sociologist, in the tradition of the bestselling The Chomsky-Foucault Debate



The Soul of Politics: A Practical and Prophetic Vision for Change

From the bestselling author of God's Politics, a seminal call to reintegrate politics and spirituality



South Africa and the United States: The Declassified History



Spanking the Donkey: Dispatches from the Dumb Season

An up-close look at the democratic race for the White House—it isn’t pretty



Speaking of Empire and Resistance: Conversations with Tariq Ali

A leading political writer and activist speaks out on the crisis in the Middle East, the war on terror, and the resurgent militarism of the American empire



The Spears of Twilight: Life and Death in the Amazon Jungle



Stayin’ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class

The tortuous path from Nixon to Reagan—think Archie Bunker, Dog Day Afternoon, and Merle Haggard—in a major new work on the cultural and political history of the 1970s, from a prizewinning historian



The Stiglitz Report: Reforming the International Monetary and Financial Systems in the Wake of the Global Crisis

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



Stranger in a Strange Land: Encounters in the Disunited States

With a sharp pencil, and a sharper eye, our protagonist shades the contours of a fractured nation



Street Wars: Gangs and the Future of Violence

NOW IN PAPERBACK The renowned activist's impassioned look at gangs and youth violence in Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York



Stubborn Hope: Religion, Politics, and Revolution in Central America



The Studs Terkel Interviews: Film and Theater

PAPERBACK An elegant new edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winner’s “richly entertaining”(Publishers Weekly) conversations with the masters of stage and screen



The Studs Terkel Reader: My American Century

A new addition to the collection of elegant reissues of the Studs Terkel Oeuvre



Studs Terkel's Working: A Graphic Adaptation

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL Comics impresario Harvey Pekar brings to vivid life Terkel’s bestselling masterpiece, with comics by America’s leading illustrators



Studs Terkel’s Working: A Teaching Guide



Stupidity and Tears: Teaching and Learning in Troubled Times

A call to arms against the increasingly hostile climate of public education, hailed by Bill Ayers as “A wise and measured handbook for the struggle ahead”



Submersion Journalism: Reporting in the Radical First Person from Harper's Magazine

Fifteen sparkling works of inside-out reportage—Harper's own house brand of "submersion journalism"—an unapologetically aggressive approach to reporting in an age of lies



Subversion as Foreign Policy: The Secret Eisenhower and Dulles Debacle in Indonesia



Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism

The explosive story of racial exclusion in the North, from the American Book Award–winning author of Lies My Teacher Told Me



Swallow: Foreign Bodies, Their Ingestion, Inspiration, and the Curious Doctor Who Extracted Them

A relevatory, poetic exploration of swallowing—and of a strange collection of objects preserved by a single-minded medical pioneer



The Sylvia Chronicles: 30 Years of Graphic Misbehavior from Reagan to Obama

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



Talking Pictures: With the People Who Made Them



Talking to Myself: A Memoir of My Times



Taxi!: Cabs and Capitalism in New York City

A front seat ride through the yellow cab industry of New York City



Tea-Bag: A Novel



Teachers Have It Easy: The Big Sacrifices and Small Salaries of America’s Teachers

NOW IN PAPERBACK The bestselling call to action for improving the working lives of public school teachers—and improving our classrooms along the way



Teaching for Social Justice: A Democracy and Education Reader

                                     



Ten Factors Necessary for Excellence in Urban Schools: Raising Expectations for Other People’s Children



Terra Nullius: A Journey Through No One's Land

A provocative journey through the dark history of the creation of white Australia, exposing the hidden genocide of the Aboriginal people



Terrorism and the Constitution: Sacrificing Civil Liberties in the Name of National Security

Timely and important. . . . This is a book every citizen should read and act upon.   —Political Science Quarterly



Theater of War: In Which the Republic Becomes an Empire



This Blinding Absence of Light: A Novel



The Thought Gang



Three Kings: The Rise of an American Empire in the Middle East After World War II

A magisterial history of America’s ascent in the Middle East during and after World War II—the essential, untold backstory to America’s current predicament in the Middle East and in the world—by the eminent historian



Three Men in a Room: The Inside Story of Power and Betrayal in an American Statehouse

The inside story of one of the country’s most secretive and misruled statehouses by a former New York State senator



Ticking Time Bombs: The New Conservative Assaults on Democracy



Ties That Bind: Familial Homophobia and Its Consequences

A brilliant, pioneering book by acclaimed novelist and playwright Sarah Schulman about how homophobia within families affects and diminishes all of us



To Move a Mountain: Fighting the Global Economy in Appalachia



Top Heavy: The Increasing Inequality of Wealth in America and What Can Be Done About It

A revised and expanded edition of the shocking study that changed the way we think of wealth in America



Torture: Does It Make Us Safer? Is It Ever OK?: A Human Rights Perspective

Today’s leading thinkers explore the most incendiary human rights issue of our time



The Torture Memos: Rationalizing the Unthinkable

The key Office of Legal Counsel documents used to justify torture in the “War on Terror,” with an introduction from the country’s leading constitutional scholar and award-winning author David Cole 9/11



A Totally Alien Life-Form": Teenagers



Touch and Go: A Memoir

NOW IN PAPERBACK — The extaordinary, widely praised memoir—“a masterpiece about a life which itself is a sort of masterpiece” (Oliver Sacks)



Towards a New Cold War: U.S. Foreign Policy from Vietnam to Reagan



TRADE CATALOG (FALL 2010)



Tragedy and Farce: How the American Media Sell Wars, Spin Elections, and Destroy Democracy

NOW IN PAPERBACK How American media are failing our democracy, by the authors Bill Moyers calls “the Paul Revere and Tom Paine of our time”



A Transatlantic Love Affair: Letters to Nelson Algren



The Traveler’s Tree



The Trial of Donald Rumsfeld: A Prosecution by Book

The evidence that the Bush administration is guilty of war crimes, presented in the form of a court case brought by one of the premier civil rights organizations in the United States



The Tribes of America: Journalistic Discoveries of Our People and Their Cultures

PAPERBACK A reissue of a fascinating work of “superb” (Chicago Tribune) reportage on the fault lines that produced today’s red/blue divide



The Trolley



The True Cost of Conflict: Seven Recent Wars and Their Effects on Society



Truth & Lies: Stories from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa



Try This at Home!: A Do-It-Yourself Guide to Winning Lesbian and Gay Civil Rights



Two Faces of Liberalism



Unchecked and Unbalanced: Presidential Power in a Time of Terror

A scathing portrait of contemporary executive power run amok, by the author of the original 1976 Church Committee Report on executive abuse



Uncommon People: Resistance, Rebellion, and Jazz



Under the Frog: A Black Comedy



Under the Perfect Sun: The San Diego Tourists Never See

An anti-tourist guide that debunks San Diego’s sunshine myth for locals and visitors alike



Undercurrents



Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky

A major new collection from “arguably the most important intellectual alive” (The New York Times)



Understanding September 11



Unequal Partners: A Primer on Globalization



Unexpected Chicagoland

An exquisite homage to Chicago’s architecture and people, from the renowned documentary photographer and the acclaimed architectural historian



The Unfinished City: New York and the Metropolitan Idea



Unfinished Work: Building Equality and Democracy in an Era of Working Families

Leading experts reflect on the changing nature of work and family life



Universal Health Care: What the United States Can Learn from the Canadian Experience



Universities and Empire: Money and Politics in the Social Sciences During the Cold War



Unjust Deserts: How the Rich Are Taking Our Common Inheritance and Why We Should Take It Back

Why most of the wealth that is earned comes in the form of a "free lunch”—and why, logically, we must give most of it back to society as a result



The Unmaking of the American Working Class

A searingly candid account of work and class in America from the author of How to Tell When You’re Tired



Unmarketable: Brandalism, Copyfighting, Mocketing, and the Erosion of Integrity

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL A writer and activist investigates corporate America’s inroads into—and alliances with—the cultural underground



The Unreal America: Architecture and Illusion



Untitled book on CCTV



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Up South: Stories, Studies, and Letters of This Century's African American Migrations



Up to Our Eyeballs: How Shady Lenders and Failed Economic Policies Are Drowning Americans in Debt

A groundbreaking book that debunks the notion that Americans’ personal indebtedness results from profligacy and offers startling analysis and realistic solutions



The Use of Explosive Ideas in Education: Culture, Class, and Evolution

Using three "explosive ideas" of the past century--culture, class, and evolution, Brameld brings both philosophy and the liberal arts to bear upon the myriad activities of classrooms, playgrounds, and administrative offices.



Utopistics: Or, Historical Choices of the Twenty-first Century



The Vampire State: And Other Myths and Fallacies About the U.S. Economy



The Vatican to Vegas: A History of Special Effects



Ven a mi casa: una busqueda de tesoro multicultural



The View from the Oak: The Private Worlds of Other Creatures



Viral Spiral: How the Commoners Built a Digital Republic of Their Own

A stunning narrative history of the emergence of electronic "free culture", from open-source software and Creative Commons licenses to remixes and web 2.0—in the tradition of Lawrence Lessig's Free Culture



Vision and Visuality: Discussions in Contemporary Culture #2



Visionaries and Outcasts: The NEA, Congress, and the Place of the Visual Artist in America



Visual Display: Culture Beyond Appearances: Discussions in Contemporary Culture #10



The Voice of Memory: Interviews, 1961–1987



WAC Stats: The Facts About Women



Wage Theft in America: Why Millions of Working Americans Are Not Getting Paid—And What We Can Do About It

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL The shocking, insidious way employers cheat their workers, with a blueprint for changing policy, from the nationally recognized social justice organizer



Waiting to Land: A (Mostly) Political Memoir, 1985-2008

From the celebrated activist, radical thinker, and historian, a fascinating political history of the mid-1980s to the present—part personal memoir, part social analysis



Wal-Mart: The Face of Twenty-First-Century Capitalism

An indispensable introduction to the company that will define the twenty-first century economy



The War: A Memoir

An elegant new paperback edition of one of Marguerite Duras’s most important books



The War at Home: The Domestic Costs of Bush’s Militarism

NOW IN PAPERBACK A look at the hidden cost of the Iraq war by the preeminent social scientist



War in Heaven: The Arms Race in Outer Space

A revelatory look at the U.S. government's plan to put weapons in outer space, by two bestselling experts



War Is Beautiful: An American Ambulance Driver in the Spanish Civil War

The newly discovered journal of an award-winning poet's experience on the front lines as a member of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade—All Quiet on the Western Front for the Spanish Civil War



War of the Century: When Hitler Fought Stalin



The War on the Poor: A Defense Manual



War Without End: The View from Abroad

A sobering meditation on the consequences of America’s engagement in Iraq, from one of Europe’s keenest observers and strategists on international affairs



Wartime Writings: 1943–1949

NOW IN PAPERBACK From one of France’s most celebrated literary figures, the captivating World War II notebooks with the remarkable stories behind her international bestsellers



The Water Atlas: A Unique Visual Analysis of the World's Most Critical Resource

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL A comprehensive charting of the global water industry



The Way Things Aren’t: Rush Limbaugh’s Reign of Error



We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness

NOW IN PAPERBACK The New York Times bestselling book of spiritual ruminations with a progressive political edge from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author



We the Media: A Citizens' Guide to Fighting for Media Democracy



Welcome to the Aquarium: A Year in the Lives of Children

Told through the observant and wise eyes of a veteran kindergarten teacher, a lyrical look at the hidden structures of life in an urban elementary school classroom



Welfare Critique (Ehrenreich & Piven)



Were You Born on the Wrong Continent?: How the European Model Can Help You Get a Life

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)



What Happened in Ohio?: A Documentary Record of Theft and Fraud in the 2004 Election

An array of primary sources documenting the dishonesty and disenfranchisement that tipped the scales for George W. Bush in 2004



What Happened to You?": Writing by Disabled Women



What Should I Do if Reverend Billy Is in My Store?

The spiritual leader of the renowned Church of Stop Shopping takes his anticonsumerist sermon from the stage to the page



What the Night Tells the Day: A Novel



What’s Love Got to Do with It?: A Critical Look at American Charity

NOW IN PAPERBACK A groundbreaking critique of American charity which Barbara Ehrenreich says “demolishes the conventional wisdom that private philanthropy is innately superior to public welfare measures”



When the Kissing Had To Stop: Cult Studs, Khmer Newts, Langley Spooks, Techno-Geeks, Video Drones, Author Gods, Serial Killers, Vampire Media, Alien Sperm Suckers, Satanic Therapists, and Those of Us Who Hold a Left-Wing Grudge in the Post-Toasties New World Hip-Hop



Which Side Are You On?: Trying to Be for Labor When It’s Flat on Its Back

The comic, poignant, one-of-a-kind book that “reads like an enthralling novel” (Studs Terkel)



White: The Biography of Walter White, Mr. NAACP

A publishing landmark, the first biography of the man who brought the NAACP to national prominence



White House E-Mail: The Secret Computer Message the Reagan/Bush White House Tried to Destory



The White House Tapes: Eavesdropping on the President



The White Lioness: A Kurt Wallander Mystery



White News: The Untold Story of Racism in American Media and the Journalists Who Fought It

An alternative history of the media in America that puts race at the center of the story, from two award-winning journalists



Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?: The Mystery Behind the Agatha Christie Mystery

NOW IN PAPERBACK A “charming piece of literary detective work” (Booklist) that reexamines Agatha Christie’s classic whodunit



Who's Afraid of Feminism?: Seeing through the Backlash



Whose Church?: A Concise Guide to Progressive Catholicism

Noted social ethicist Dan Maguire explains what Catholicism actually says about good sex, women’s equality, social justice, and the environment



Whose Gospel?: A Concise Guide to Progressive Protestantism

A passionate call to justice from the figure Newsweek calls “one of the twelve most effective preachers in the English-speaking world”



Whose Qur'an?: A Concise Guide to Progressive Islam

A leading Muslim scholar and activist reclaims islam as a faith committed to progressive values and the movement for justice—the newest addition to the new press’s groundbreaking Whose Religion? Series



Whose Torah?: A Concise Guide to Progressive Judaism

Noted scholar and groundbreaking Rabbi Rebecca Alpert discusses what the Torah actually says about sex, war, poverty, the environment, and other major contemporary issues—from noted feminist scholar and groundbreaking rabbi Rebecca Alpert



Whose Trade Organization?: A Comprehensive Guide to the WTO

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL A meticulous chronicle of how the WTO has eroded democracy around the world



Why School?: Reclaiming Education for All of Us

A powerful and timely exploration of this country’s public education goals, and how they are put into practice, by the award-winning author and educator



Will the Circle Be Unbroken?: Reflections on Death, Rebirth, and Hunger for a Faith

A major new oral history from the Pulitzer Prize–winner, dealing with the universal experience of death



Will the Last Reporter Please Turn Out the Lights: The Collapse of Journalism and What Can Be Done to Fix It

Paperback original: The first-ever road map to understanding the debates swirling around the sudden collapse of the news media



With God on Their Side: George W. Bush and the Christian Right

NOW IN PAPERBACK The book Amy Goodman hailed as "classic muckraking at its best"



With Liberty and Justice for Some: A Critique of the Conservative Supreme Court



Witness Against the Beast: William Blake and the Moral Law



Women in the 19th Century: Categories and Contradictions



Women Pay More: And How To Put a Stop to It



Wonderful Women by the Sea



Words of Fire: An Anthology of African American Feminist Thought



The Work of Andy Warhol: Discussions in Contemporary Culture #3



Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do

In celebration of his 2003 Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Book Critics Circle, one of three of Studs Terkel’s classics in handsome new paperback editions



Working-Class New York: Life and Labor Since World War II

NOW IN PAPERBACK a “lucid, detailed, and imaginative analysis” (The Nation) of the model city that working-class New Yorkers created after World War II—and its tragic demise



The World According to Monsanto: Pollution, Corruption, and the Control of Our Food Supply

Winner of the Rachel Carson prize, an explosive exposé of the disturbing practices of the world’s most influential multinational agricultural corporation



The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker

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



The World of Mexican Migrants: The Rock and the Hard Place

NOW IN PAPERBACK An eye-opening, immensely readable look at the lives of Mexican migrants, by the author of the bestselling Mexican Lives



The World Out There: Becoming Part of the Lesbian and Gay Community



The WPA Guide to New York City



The Wrong Guys: Murder, False Confessions, and the Norfolk Four

A compulsively readable true-crime tale, with a damning argument about the relationship between the death penalty and false confessions, based on an innocence project case



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You Have No Rights: Stories of America in an Age of Repression

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL Chilling stories of ordinary Americans whose everyday liberties have been violated since September 11



Zero Tolerance: Resisting the Drive for Punishment in Our Schools

A clear-eyed collection that takes aim at the replacement of teaching with punishment in America’s schools                              



Zig Zag: The Politics of Culture and Vice Versa



“I Won’t Learn from You”: And Other Thoughts on Creative Maladjustment