Fall 2012 Catalog

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An Army of Phantoms

American Movies and the Making of the Cold War

J. Hoberman

NOW IN PAPERBACK: Acclaimed critic J . Hoberman’ s masterful exploration of the Cold War film industry in “an epic . . . al ternately fevered and measured account of what might be called the primal scene of American cinema” (Cineaste)

Back to School

Why Everyone Deserves a Second Chance at Education

Mike Rose

From the celebrated author of Why School? and Lives on the Boundary, a compelling call for a new way of thinking about education beyond high school, one that redefines what it means to live in the land of opportunity

Big History

From the Big Bang to the Present

Cynthia Stokes Brown

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

Color Me English

Reflections on Migration and Belonging

Caryl Phillips

Now in paperback: Enchanting and provocative explorations of culture, race, and identity by the highly acclaimed British Caribbean winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize

The Coup

1953, the CIA, and the Roots of Modern U.S.-Iranian Relations

Ervand Abrahamian

From a leading historian of the Middle East, a lucid account of the CIA’s 1953 coup in Iran and how it paved the way to today’s diplomatic gridlock


Crimes Against Humanity

The Struggle for Global Justice

Geoffrey Robertson

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

Electoral Dysfunction

A Survival Manual for American Voters

Victoria Bassetti

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL Published to coincide with the nationally broadcast PBS documentary starring Mo Rocca, this eye-opening guide shows why there's something funny about voting in America—and offers an Rx for fixing our electoral dysfunction

Fatal Invention

How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century

Dorothy Roberts

NOW IN PAPERBACK: Hailed as "essential reading" by Danny Glover and "a triumph!" by Harriet Washington, a groundbreaking critique of an emerging racial science, by the award-winning author of Killing the Black Body

Foodopoly

The Battle Over the Future of Food and Farming in America

Wenonah Hauter

An exposé of how agribusiness and food corporations are undermining a healthy food system—and how voting with your fork will not solve the problem

Fortress Europe

Dispatches from a Gated Continent

Matthew Carr

From the author of the “splendid” (New York Times) Blood and Faith, an explosive investigation into the violent, high-tech borders of the new Europe, exposing the dark side of the continent’s draconian immigration policies

From Dictatorship to Democracy

A Conceptual Framework for Liberation

Gene Sharp

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL: The revolutionary word-of-mouth phenomenon, available for the first time as a trade book—not “since Machiavelli has a book had such impact in shifting the balance of power” (The Times of London)

Game Over

How Politics Has Turned the Sports World Upside Down

Dave Zirin

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL: From the bestselling author of What’s My Name, Fool? and the commentator that Robert Lipsyte calls “the smartest and gutsiest sportswriter in America,” a razor-sharp analysis of how sports and politics mix today

Hard Times

An Illustrated Oral History of the Great Depression

Studs Terkel

The masterpiece that brings to life an era that resonates all too well with the current moment, reissued in a stunning new edition with documentary photographs from the celebrated Farm Security Administration archive

Howard Zinn

A Life on the Left

Martin Duberman

From the award-winning historian and activist Martin Duberman, a sweeping political biography of Howard Zinn, “the people’s historian” who himself made history, changing forever how we think about our past

In Praise of Love

Alain Badiou, Nicolas Truong

From one of the greatest living French philosophers, a spirited and moving defense of
twenty-first-century love

Kids for Cash

Two Judges, Thousands of Children, and a $2.8 Million Kickback Scheme

William Ecenbarger

From the Pulitzer prize-winning Philadelphia Inquirer reporter, a gripping work of true crime about the Pennsylvania case in which judges in a rural county took cash payments for sending children to a privatized juvenile detention facility

Lessons from the Heartland

A Turbulent Half-Century of Public Education in an Iconic American City

Barbara J. Miner

A sweeping narrative portrait of the all-American city at the epicenter of public education reform—A Common Ground for the decades since the events chronicled in J. Anthony Lukas's Pulitzer Prize winner

Loving This Planet

Leading Thinkers Talk About How to Make a Better World

Helen Caldicott

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL More than two dozen internationally recognized advocates discuss the state of the planet in candid conversations with leading antinuclear activist Dr. Helen Caldicott

A People’s History of the U.S. Military

Ordinary Soldiers Reflect on Their Experience of War, from the American Revolution to Afghanistan

Michael A. Bellesiles

A new installment in The New Press’ People’s History Series, with compelling first-person accounts of the experience of common soldiers in the U.S. military

The Shadow Girls

A Novel

Henning Mankell

From the internationally bestselling author—whose books have sold more than 40 million copies worldwide—a moving, unexpectedly funny new novel

Shattered

The Asian American Comics Anthology

Edited by Jeff Yang, Parry Shen, Keith Chow, and Jerry Ma

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL: The stunning new book by the authors of the acclaimed graphic collection of original Asian American comic book stories, Secret Identities

Two Billion Eyes

The Story of China Central Television

Ying Zhu

The first inside look at China Central television (CCTV), the little-known global media conglomerate that broadcasts to the world's largest audience