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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PAPERBACK ORIGINAL — The Pulitzer prize-winning oral historian and nonagenarian makes a selection of his favorite unpublished writings, broadcasts, and interviews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
NOW IN PAPERBACK The acclaimed sweeping history of a nation at war with itself, told here for the first time by the people who lived it
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
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
NOW IN PAPERBACK The acclaimed sweeping history of a nation at war with itself, told here for the first time by the people who lived it
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