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Stayin’ Alive

The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class

Jefferson Cowie

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

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

Jay Walljasper, On the Commons

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

Were You Born on the Wrong Continent?

How the European Model Can Help You Get a Life

Thomas Geoghegan

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)

The Moral Underground

How Ordinary Americans Subvert an Unfair Economy

Lisa Dodson

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

Ties That Bind

Familial Homophobia and Its Consequences

Sarah Schulman

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

Sacred Matters

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

Gary Laderman

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

Studs Terkel's Working

A Graphic Adaptation

Harvey Pekar

Edited by Paul Buhle

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

Getting Ghost

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

Luke Bergmann

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

Al' America

Travels Through America’s Arab and Islamic Roots

Jonathan Curiel

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

A People’s History of Poverty in America

Stephen Pimpare

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

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

Joann Faung Jean Lee

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

Critical Race Realism

Intersections of Psychology, Race, and Law

Edited by Gregory S. Parks, Shayne Jones, and W. Jonathan Cardi

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

Whose Torah?

A Concise Guide to Progressive Judaism

Rebecca T. Alpert

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 Church?

A Concise Guide to Progressive Catholicism

Daniel C. Maguire

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

The World of Mexican Migrants

The Rock and the Hard Place

Judith Adler Hellman

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

The Case for Make Believe

Saving Play in a Commercialized World

Susan Linn

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

Up to Our Eyeballs

How Shady Lenders and Failed Economic Policies Are Drowning Americans in Debt

José García, James Lardner, Cindy Zeldin

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

Bitter Chocolate

The Dark Side of the World's Most Seductive Sweet

Carol Off

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

Ex Mex

From Migrants to Immigrants

Jorge G. Castañeda

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

Evil Paradises

Dreamworlds of Neoliberalism

Edited by Mike Davis and Daniel Bertrand Monk

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

God Needs No Passport

Immigrants and the Changing American Religious Landscape

Peggy Levitt

NOW IN PAPERBACK A major examination of the American immigrant experience, revealing how recent immigrants are transforming religion in America and around the globe