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The Sylvia Chronicles

30 Years of Graphic Misbehavior from Reagan to Obama

Nicole Hollander

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

Protest Nation

Words That Inspired a Century of American Radicalism

Edited by Timothy Patrick McCarthy and John McMillian

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

Political Awakenings

Conversations with History

Harry Kreisler

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

Beyond the Echo Chamber

Reshaping Politics Through Networked Progressive Media

Jessica Clark, Tracy Van Slyke

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

Three Kings

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

Lloyd C. Gardner

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

On Empire

America, War, and Global Supremacy

Eric Hobsbawm

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL The masterful assessment of our troubled present by “the best-known living historian in the world” (The Times, London)

Grand Illusion

The Myth of Voter Choice in a Two-Party Tyranny

Theresa Amato

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

Front Lines

Political Plays by American Women

Edited by Alexis Greene and Shirley Lauro

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

Keeping Down the Black Vote

Race and the Demobilization of American Voters

Frances Fox Piven, Lorraine C. Minnite, Margaret Groarke

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

Unjust Deserts

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

Gar Alperovitz, Lew Daly

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 Trial of Donald Rumsfeld

A Prosecution by Book

Michael Ratner

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

Jane Fonda's Words of Politics and Passion

Mary Hershberger

NOW IN PAPERBACK An inspiring look at the politics of a generation through the words of one of the most iconic women of our time—illuminating thirty-five years of activism in the United States

Unmarketable

Brandalism, Copyfighting, Mocketing, and the Erosion of Integrity

Anne Elizabeth Moore

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

See You in Court

How the Right Made America a Lawsuit Nation

Thomas Geoghegan

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

You Have No Rights

Stories of America in an Age of Repression

Matthew Rothschild

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

Challenging China

Struggle and Hope in an Era of Change

Edited by Sharon Hom and Stacy Mosher

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

Road from ar Ramadi

The Private Rebellion of Staff Sergeant Camilo Mejía

Camilo Mejía

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

Iraq and the Lessons of Vietnam

Or, How Not to Learn from the Past

Edited by Lloyd C. Gardner and Marilyn B. Young

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

Unchecked and Unbalanced

Presidential Power in a Time of Terror

Frederick A.O. Schwarz Jr., Aziz Z. Huq

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

War in Heaven

The Arms Race in Outer Space

Helen Caldicott, Craig Eisendrath

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

Iran

A People Interrupted

Hamid Dabashi

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

The Darker Nations

A People's History of the Third World

Vijay Prashad

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

Dream

Re-imagining Progressive Politics in an Age of Fantasy

Stephen Duncombe

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 Genius of Impeachment

The Founders' Cure for Royalism

John Nichols

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

What Happened in Ohio?

A Documentary Record of Theft and Fraud in the 2004 Election

Robert J. Fitrakis, Steven Rosenfeld, Harvey Wasserman

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

Nuclear Power Is Not the Answer

Helen Caldicott

NOW IN PAPERBACK The world-renowned antinuclear activist’s “expertly argued” (The Guardian) case against nuclear energy

Three Men in a Room

The Inside Story of Power and Betrayal in an American Statehouse

Seymour P. Lachman, Robert Polner

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

Enemy Combatant

My Imprisonment at Guantánamo, Bagram, and Kandahar

Moazzam Begg

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

Pretensions to Empire

Notes on the Criminal Folly of the Bush Administration

Lewis Lapham

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

The Soul of Politics

A Practical and Prophetic Vision for Change

Jim Wallis

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

Conned

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

Sasha Abramsky

The criminal disenfranchisement that affects millions of American citizens

Against the Wall

Israel’s Barrier to Peace

Edited by Michael Sorkin

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

Rednecks & Bluenecks

The Politics of Country Music

Chris Willman

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

Tragedy and Farce

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

John Nichols, Robert W. McChesney

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”

Torture

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

Edited by Kenneth Roth and Minky Worden

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

Mr. Galloway Goes to Washington

The Brit Who Set Congress Straight About Iraq

George Galloway

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

Enemy Aliens

Double Standards and Constitutional Freedoms in the War on Terrorism

David Cole

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

Priceless

On Knowing the Price of Everything and the Value of Nothing

Frank Ackerman, Lisa Heinzerling

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

Confessions of an Argentine Dirty Warrior

A Firsthand Account of Atrocity

Horacio Verbitsky

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”

Under the Perfect Sun

The San Diego Tourists Never See

Mike Davis, Kelly Mayhew, Jim Miller

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

Field Guide to the Global Economy

Sarah Anderson, John Cavanagh, Thea Lee

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

In Time of War

Hitler's Terrorist Attack on America

Pierce O'Donnell

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

Schwarzenegger Syndrome

Politics and Celebrity in the Age of Contempt

Gary Indiana

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”

Jean-Paul Sartre

A Life

Annie Cohen-Solal

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

Spanking the Donkey

Dispatches from the Dumb Season

Matt Taibbi

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

War Without End

The View from Abroad

Bruno Tertrais

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

Speaking of Empire and Resistance

Conversations with Tariq Ali

Tariq Ali, David Barsamian

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 New American Empire

A 21st Century Teach-In on U.S. Foreign Policy

Edited by Lloyd C. Gardner and Marilyn B. Young

The historical roots of contemporary America’s foreign policy, by today’s leading scholars

The Freedom

Shadows and Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq

Christian Parenti

NOW IN PAPERBACK An instant classic on America's catastrophic—and indefinite—occupation of Iraq

Guantánamo

The War on Human Rights

David Rose

NOW IN PAPERBACK A vivid and damning account of America's controversial interrogation camp

America’s Military Today

Challenges for the Armed Forces in a Time of War

Tod Ensign

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

With God on Their Side

George W. Bush and the Christian Right

Esther Kaplan

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

The War at Home

The Domestic Costs of Bush’s Militarism

Frances Fox Piven

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

The Rise and Rise of Richard B. Cheney

Unlocking the Mysteries of the Most Powerful Vice President in American History

John Nichols

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

The Maze of Fear

Security and Migration After 9/11

Edited by John Tirman

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

Inventing the Axis of Evil

The Truth About North Korea, Iran, and Syria

Bruce Cumings, Ervand Abrahamian, Moshe Ma’oz

NOW IN PAPERBACK An "authoritative and informative" (The Nation) primer on the countries caught in the crosshairs of the Bush administration, by three renowned experts

Hoodwinked

The Documents That Reveal How Bush Sold Us a War

John Prados

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

Moyers on America

A Journalist and His Times

Bill Moyers

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

The Other Israel

Voices of Refusal and Dissent

Edited by Roane Carey and Jonathan Shainin

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

Manifesto for a New World Order

George Monbiot

NOW IN PAPERBACK Visionary George Monbiot's road map for a global democratic revolution

Whose Trade Organization?

A Comprehensive Guide to the WTO

Lori Wallach, Patrick Woodall

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

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

Bill Talen

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

Firing Back

Against the Tyranny of the Market 2

Pierre Bourdieu

Theater of War

In Which the Republic Becomes an Empire

Lewis Lapham

North Korea

Another Country

Bruce Cumings

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

The White House Tapes

Eavesdropping on the President

Edited by John Prados

Global Inc.

An Atlas of the Multinational Corporation

Medard Gabel, Henry Bruner

A unique and startling visual representation of the rise of the global corporation

After the New Economy

The Binge . . . And the Hangover That Won’t Go Away

Doug Henwood

Journalist Doug Henwood’s withering postmortem of the new economy

Chimes of Freedom

The Politics of Bob Dylan’s Art

Mike Marqusee

Dead Cities

And Other Tales

Mike Davis

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

Lost Liberties

Ashcroft and the Assault on Personal Freedom

Edited by Cynthia Brown

Towards a New Cold War

Bombs and Bandwidth

The Emerging Relationship Between Information Technology and Security

Edited by Robert Latham

The Essential Foucault

Selections from Essential Works of Foucault, 1954-1984

Michel Foucault

Edited by Paul Rabinow and Nikolas Rose

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

The Radical Reader

A Documentary History of the American Radical Tradition

Edited by Timothy Patrick McCarthy and John McMillian

Key documents illustrate the richness of the American radical tradition

The Assassination of Julius Caesar

A People’s History of Ancient Rome

Michael Parenti

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

The Decline of American Power

The U.S. in a Chaotic World

Immanuel Wallerstein

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

Problems of Knowledge and Freedom

Noam Chomsky

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

For Reasons of State

Noam Chomsky

Chomsky’s major works now reissued by The New Press

Information Feudalism

Who Owns the Knowledge Economy?

Peter Drahos, John Braithwaite

NOW IN PAPERBACK The definitive account of how multinational corporations have seized control of intellectual property rights

American Power and the New Mandarins

Historical and Political Essays

Noam Chomsky

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

Hooked

Five Addicts Challenge Our Misguided Drug Rehab System

Lonny Shavelson

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)

A Badly Flawed Election

Debating Bush v. Gore, the Supreme Court, and American Democracy

Edited by Ronald Dworkin

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

Understanding September 11

Edited by Craig Calhoun

Critical Views of September 11

Analyses from Around the World

Edited by Eric Hershberg and Kevin W. Moore

Leading American social scientists examine the new world after September 11

The Health of Nations

Why Inequality Is Harmful to Your Health

Ichiro Kawachi, Bruce P. Kennedy

NOW IN PAPERBACK A celebrated analysis of inequality's impact on human health

Another Century of War?

Gabriel Kolko

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

Terrorism and the Constitution

Sacrificing Civil Liberties in the Name of National Security

David Cole, James X. Dempsey

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

Barbed Wire

A Political History

Olivier Razac

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

Two Faces of Liberalism

John Gray

Fallout

The Environmental Consequences of the World Trade Center Collapse

Juan González

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

Making Work Pay

America After Welfare

Edited by Robert Kuttner

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

The New Nuclear Danger

George W. Bush’s Military-Industrial Complex

Helen Caldicott

A biting denunciation of current U.S. weapons policies by the world’s leading antinuclear activist, in a new, expanded edition

Understanding Power

The Indispensable Chomsky

Noam Chomsky

Edited by Peter R. Mitchell and John Schoeffel

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

Every Handgun Is Aimed at You

The Case for Banning Handguns

Josh Sugarmann

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)

Jews for Buchanan

Did You Hear the One About the Theft of the American Presidency?

John Nichols

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

Perpetuating Power

How Mexican Presidents Were Chosen

Jorge G. Castañeda

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