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12 Angry Men

True Stories of Being a Black Man in America Today

Edited by Gregory S. Parks and Matthew W. Hughey

Now in paperback: 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

Bad News

How America's Business Press Missed the Story of the Century

Edited by Anya Schiffrin

Now in paperback: 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

Bad Sports

How Owners Are Ruining the Games We Love

Dave Zirin

PAPERBACK From the "conscience of American sportswriting" (The Washington Post), a provocative call to reexamine the business of professional sports and put some fun back in the game for fans, with a new preface by the author

Bill Moyers Journal

The Conversation Continues

Bill Moyers

Now in paperback: Breakthrough conversations with one of the “Fifty Most Influential Progressives of the Twentieth Century” (The Nation), in a stunning companion to the Emmy Award–winning PBS® series

The Chicken Chronicles

Sitting with the Angels Who Have Returned with My Memories: Glorious, Rufus, Gertrude Stein, Splendor, Hortensia, Agnes of God, the Gladyses, & Babe: A Memoir

Alice Walker

Now in paperback: Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, activist, and spiritual guide Alice Walker offers an extraordinary account of a year in the life of her flock of backyard chickens—a story of personal discovery, affirmation, and the joys of relating to animals

From Cairo to Wall Street

Voices from the Global Spring

Edited by Anya Schiffrin and Eamon Kircher-Allen

“This is the first essential text of a new and remarkably dynamic era of social activism that has already brought profound change to the world.”
—Bob Herbert

Fuel on the Fire

Oil and Politics in Occupied Iraq

Greg Muttitt

A groundbreaking investigation confirming what many have long felt: oil interests lay at the very heart of the Iraq war—a legacy that continues to haunt us

The Indispensable Zinn

The Essential Writings of the "People's Historian"

Howard Zinn

Edited by Timothy Patrick McCarthy

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL A concise and accessible volume of the seminal writings of the late Howard Zinn, "the historian who made history" (The Nation)

Labor Rising

The Past and Future of Working People in America

Edited by Daniel Katz and Richard A. Greenwald

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL A timely and urgent look at the twenty-first-century prospects of working people and the labor movement, from leading activists and historians

Losing Our Cool

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

Stan Cox

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

No Equal Justice

Race and Class in the American Criminal Justice System

David Cole

A tenth-anniversary edition of the award-winning classic work on race- and class-based double standards in the law, completely revised and updated by the leading constitutional scholar                

Race

How Blacks and Whites Think and Feel About the American Obsession

Studs Terkel

PAPERBACK A landmark book—the first title ever published by The New Press—now with a new introduction by Gary Younge that brings Terkel's poignant portraits of how race is lived in America to bear on today's shifting cultural and political landscape

A Saving Remnant

The Radical Lives of Barbara Deming and David McReynolds

Martin Duberman

From the award-winning biographer and historian, a brilliant dual biography of two of the most fascinating twentieth-century political activists—now in paperback

Side by Side

Parallel Histories of Israel-Palestine

Sami Adwan, Dan Bar-On, Eyal Naveh, Peace Research Institute in the Middle East

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL: A groundbreaking "dual narrative" history of Israel and Palestine which offers a new paradigm for the teaching of history in conflict and post-conflict situations

So Rich, So Poor

Why It's So Hard to End Poverty in America

Peter Edelman

An uncompromising look at the increasing poverty in America today—especially among young people—by the man who famously resigned from the Clinton administration to protest the treatment of the nation's poor

Studs Terkel's Chicago

Studs Terkel

NEW ILLUSTRATED EDITION The classic homage to one of America's greatest cities, by the celebrated oral historian and cultural icon, the late Studs Terkel

Swallow

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

Mary Cappello

Now in paperback: A revelatory, poetic exploration of swallowing—and of a strange collection of objects preserved by a single-minded medical pioneer

Teaching Matters

Stories from Inside City Schools

Beverly Falk, Megan Blumenreich

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL Inspiring, on-the-ground accounts of teachers who work every day to foster culturally inclusive, holistic learning in the highest-need urban classrooms

Ties That Bind

Familial Homophobia and Its Consequences

Sarah Schulman

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

Uncle Swami

South Asians in America Today

Vijay Prashad

An illuminating portrait of a group of Americans made inadvertent victims of the war on terror, from the prizewinning author of The Darker Nations and The Karma of Brown Folk

Ways of Forgetting, Ways of Remembering

Japan in the Modern World

John W. Dower

A stunning rumination on the historical relationship between Japan and the United States, from the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian