10 Excellent Reasons for National Health Care

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL As the number of uninsured American reaches epic numbers, here’s a concise and convincing guide that explains why national health care is the only  approach that makes sense

10 Excellent Reasons Not to Hate Taxes

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL A short, snappy handbook countering the anti-tax, anti-government rhetoric that permeates our culture and reminding us why taxes lie at the heart of a functioning democracy

10 Excellent Reasons Not to Join the Military

A short, snappy handbook detailing why the military may need you, but you really don't need it

12 Angry Men: True Stories of Being a Black Man in America Today

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

1877: America's Year of Living Violently

NOW IN PAPERBACK: A "compelling work of historical scholarship" (Jon Wiener) that brilliantly recaptures one of the few truly pivotal years in U.S. history

1914: A Novel

Paperback Original: The Prix Goncourt winner turns his stylistic brilliance to the horrors of World War I in a novel published on the war’s one hundredth anniversary

30 Satires

A leading political satirist skewers the pretensions and vanities of America’s equestrian classes

42 Up: "Give Me the Child Until He Is Seven and I Will Show You the Man"

The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust, 1941–1945

A handsome new paperback edition of the bestselling classic on America’s response to the Nazi assault on European Jews

The Absolute Perfection of Crime: A Novel

An explosive crime novel with all the tough grittiness of film noir

Acts of Resistance: Against the Tyranny of the Market

Admiring Silence

Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology

African Art Portfolio: An Illustrated Introduction: Masterpieces from the Eleventh to the Twentieth Centuries

After bin Laden: Al Qaeda, the Next Generation

After Liberalism

After the Fall: New Yorkers Remember September 2001 and the Years That Followed

An unprecedented cross-section of New Yorkers—interviewed at intervals since 9/11— tell the story of the Trade Center attack and how it changed their lives

After the New Economy: The Binge . . . And the Hangover That Won’t Go Away

Journalist Doug Henwood’s withering postmortem of the new economy

After the Storm: Black Intellectuals Explore the Meaning of Hurricane Katrina

NOW IN PAPERBACK On the second anniversary of Katrina, one of the few books to offer the perspectives of African Americans on the Gulf Coast tragedy

Against the Wall: Israel’s Barrier to Peace

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

AIDS Agenda: Emerging Issues in Civil Rights

Al Qaeda and What It Means to Be Modern

A provocative and stimulating reevaluation of Al Queda by one of Britain’s most controversial thinkers

Al' America: Travels Through America’s Arab and Islamic Roots

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

All About You: An Adventure of Self-Discovery

All Alone in the World: Children of the Incarcerated

NOW IN PAPERBACK An award-winning journalist’s “heart wrenching”(The San Antonio Observer) look at children with parents in prison—a Newsweek “book of the week” and an East Bay Express bestseller

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

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

All Things Being Equal: Instigating Opportunity in an Inequitable Time

Eight sparkling essays by leading thinkers on how to give all Americans a fair shake, published with a hot new social change group

Amazonia: Five Years at the Epicenter of the Dot.Com Juggernaut

NOW IN PAPERBACK Employee #55’s story of the first five years of Amazon.com, which “brims with fascinating Amazoniana” (The Los Angeles Times)

America by the Numbers: A Field Guide to the U.S. Population

An eye-opening, at-a glance guide to the myths and realities of American demography

American Dreams: Lost and Found

Here is the raw material for one thousand novels. . . incomparable.  —MARGARET ATWOOD

American Power and the New Mandarins: Historical and Political Essays

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

America’s Military Today: Challenges for the Armed Forces in a Time of War

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

Anatomy of a War: Vietnam, the United States, and the Modern Historical Experience

And If They Have Not Died: A Novel

And They All Sang: Adventures of an Eclectic Disc Jockey

NOW IN PAPERBACK the Pulitzer Prize winner’s “latest indispensable oral history” (New York Times) of the twentieth century’s most celebrated musicians

Anita and Me

The prize-winning coming-of-age novel about a young Indian girl in northern England. 

Annapolis Autumn: Life, Death, and Literature at the U.S. Naval Academy

In the tradition of Dead Poets Society, an English professor recounts the unique challenges of teaching liberal arts at one of America's premier military schools

Another Century of War?

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

The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture

Antiquities: Postwar French Thought, Volume III

The third volume in the “timely and ambitious” (Boston Book Review) New Press Postwar French Thought Series

Any Way You Slice It: The Past, Present, and Future of Rationing

The Arabs: A Concise History

From a leading scholar, a sweeping, accessible history of a key region that provides vital context for understanding the contemporary Middle East

An Army of Phantoms: American Movies and the Making of the Cold War

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)

The Art of Ancient Egypt: Masterpieces from the Brooklyn Museum

Art of the American Indian Frontier: A Portfolio

Art on My Mind: Visual Politics

Asia/America: Identities in Contemporary Asian American Art

Asian Americans: Oral Histories of First to Fourth Generation Americans from China, the Philippines, Japan, India, the Pacific Islands, Vietnam, and Cambodia

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

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

Asian Art Portfolio: Masterpieces from the Asia Society

The Assassination of Julius Caesar: A People’s History of Ancient Rome

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

The Autonomy Myth: A Theory of Dependency

A brilliant exposé of the American myth of self-reliance and the reality of an interdependent society

Baby Mamas

Back to School: Why Everyone Deserves a Second Chance at Education

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

Bad News: How America's Business Press Missed the Story of the Century

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

A Badly Flawed Election: Debating Bush v. Gore, the Supreme Court, and American Democracy

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

Bandits

Back in print, the groundbreaking classic on robber-rebel from "the best known living historian in the world." (The Times, London)

Banishing the Beast: Sexuality and the Early Feminist

Barack Obama and the Crisis of Black Leadership (Glen Ford and Peter Gamble)

Barbed Wire: A Political History

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

Bay of Pigs Declassified: The Secret CIA Report on the Invasion of Cuba

Now available for the first time, "one of the most secret documents of the Cold War" (New York Times): the government's own report of the Bay of Pigs fiasco

Be Honest: And Other Advice from Students Across the Country

The newest book from 826 National, the celebrated organization founded by Dave Eggers and Nínive Calegari, co-authors of the bestselling Teachers Have It Easy—a much-needed addition to the current national conversation about our schools

Before the Frost: A Linda Wallander Mystery

The internationally acclaimed crime writer introduces a young, new heroine with a familiar father

Behind the Shock Machine: The Untold Story of the Notorious Milgram Psychology Experiments

The true story — and revealing legacy — of the controversial experiments on obedience to authority figures, based on previously unpublished material

Being with Children: A High-Spirited Personal Account of Teaching Writing, Theater, and Videotape

Berenice Abbott: Changing New York

NEWLY REISSUED After being out of print for several years, a stunning book of photographs that was a Wall Street Journal, Business Week, and Newsday best Book of the Year

The Betrayal of Work: How Low-Wage Jobs Fail 30 Million Americans

NOW IN PAPERBACK: The book Newsweek’s Anna Quindlen said “should be required reading for every presidential candidate and member of Congress”

Better to Reign in Hell: Inside the Raiders Fan Empire

A season with the infamous fans of the football team everyone loves to hate

Betting on Famine: Why the World Still Goes Hungry

From a leading global expert, how the world’s shift from growing food to growing fuel has led to a new epidemic of starvation—and worldwide food insecurity

Beyond Suspicion: A Novel

“A book you read in a single sitting” (Le Magazine Littéraire), here is a “story worthy of Hitchcock” (Paris Vogue), from one of the most promising French novelists to emerge since Michel Houellebecq

Beyond the Bake Sale: The Essential Guide to Family-School Partnerships

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL A practical, hands-on primer on helping schools and families work better together to improve children's education

Beyond the Echo Chamber: Reshaping Politics Through Networked Progressive Media

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

Big Blondes

The Big Eddy Club: The Stocking Stranglings and Southern Justice

Now in paperback: A "dazzlingly reported, supremely elegant" (The Observer) exposé of race, injustice, and serial murder in the deep south—Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil with an investigative edge—now with an important update

Big History: From the Big Bang to the Present

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

Bill Moyers Journal: The Conversation Continues

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 Biodiversity Crisis: Losing What Counts

The fastest mass extinction of species in Earth’s history, intriguingly explored in an illustrated companion to the American Museum of Natural History’s permanent exhibit

Bitter Chocolate: The Dark Side of the World's Most Seductive Sweet

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

Bitterly Divided: The South's Inner Civil War

NOW IN PAPERBACK: In a book that Kirkus calls “certain to provoke,”an absorbing look at the internal rift within the Confederacy, which tore apart the South during the Civil War

Black Against Empire: The Rise and Fall of the Black Panthers

Black Fire: The Making of an American Revolutionary

Black Heritage Sites: The North, Volume 1

Black Heritage Sites: The South, Volume 2

Black Judges on Justice: Perspectives from the Bench

Black Popular Culture: Discussions in Contemporary Culture #8

A Village Voice Best Book of the Year

Black Radical: The Education of an American Revolutionary

An absorbing, firsthand account of an African American’s struggle for equality in the decades after World War II, by a writer the Washington Post calls “Wolfean and Whitmanesque”

Black Stats: African Americans by the Numbers

Paperback Original: An essential handbook of eye-opening — and frequently myth-busting — facts and figures about the real lives of African Americans today

Black Teachers on Teaching

Blind Goddess: A Reader on Race and Justice

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL A cutting-edge collection exposing the insidious role that race continues to play throughout the U.S. criminal justice system, by today’s leading reformers in the field

Blocked on Weibo: What Gets Suppressed on China’s Version of Twitter (and Why)

Blood and Faith: The Purging of Muslim Spain

Now in paperback: A New York Times Editor’s Choice and a major new historical exposé of the tragic fate of Muslim Spain, with haunting resonance for the present

Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water

NOW IN PAPERBACK From the internationally acclaimed environmentalist, an “engaging, eye-opening account” (The Indypendent) of the global movement for water justice, in the tradition of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring

Blue Future: Protecting Water for People and the Planet Forever

From the internationally acclaimed environmentalist, a powerful, penetrating, and timely look at the looming global water crisis — and what we can do to prevent it

Blue Gold: The Fight to Stop the Corporate Theft of the World’s Water

The internationally acclaimed story of the corporate takeover of our most basic resource and the inevitable global water crisis

The Body Hunters: Testing New Drugs on the World's Poorest Patients

NOW IN PAPERBACK An eye-opening look at big pharma’s unethical and exploitative drug trials in the global South—the true story behind The Constant Gardener

A Bomb in Every Issue: How the Short, Unruly Life of Ramparts Magazine Changed America

Now in paperback: A lavishly praised "lively history"  (Los Angeles Times) of Ramparts—the magazine that brought the New Left into American living rooms in the '60s and made an indelible imprint on American journalism

Bombing Civilians: A Twentieth-Century History

Now in paperback: the first comprehensive historical analysis of one of the great horrors of modern times, hailed by Frida Berrigan as "a vividly detailed and profoundly troubling history of war fought from the air"

Bombs and Bandwidth: The Emerging Relationship Between Information Technology and Security

The Breaking of the American Social Compact

Brecht's Mistress: A Novel

Winner  of the 2003 Prix Goncourt, a novel hailed by the Times Literary Supplement as "a delicate, elegiac tale of political failure and defeated love"

Bronzeville: Black Chicago in Pictures, 1941-1943

NOW IN PAPERBACK A powerful collection of WPA images of black Chicago's defining moment

Brown v. Board: The Landmark Oral Argument Before the Supreme Court

The transcripts, never before available to the general reading public, of “the most important American governmental act of any kind since the Emancipation Proclamation” (Louis Pollack, Yale University)

A Buffalo in the House: The True Story of a Man, an Animal, and the American West

Marley and Me meets All creatures great and small, as an ailing but lovable orphan buffalo joins a Santa Fe household

The Business of Journalism: Ten Leading Reporters and Editors on the Perils and Pitfalls of the Press

By the Sea

From the East African author of Paradise, which was short-listed for the Booker Prize, a spellbinding novel of seduction and betrayal

Capital Moves: RCA's Seventy-Year Quest for Cheap Labor

NOW IN PAPERBACK the highly acclaimed account of one renowned company’s labor struggles in its rise to global power

Caribbean Slave Society and the Economy: A Student Reader

The Case for Make Believe: Saving Play in a Commercialized World

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

Catholic Does Not Equal the Vatican: A Vision for Progressive Catholicism

A stirring manifest for progressive Catholics and a challenge to Vatican politics, from pioneering feminist Catholic Rosemary Ruethers—the next book in the acclaimed "Does Not Equal" series

Censoring Culture: Contemporary Threats to Free Expression

A bestselling art historian and a free speech advocate explore subtle new forms of censorship in the art world and beyond

Century of War: Politics, Conflict, and Society Since 1914

Challenging China: Struggle and Hope in an Era of Change

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

Chasing Gideon: The Elusive Quest for Poor People's Justice

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

Chimes of Freedom: The Politics of Bob Dylan’s Art

China Pop: How Soap Operas, Tabloids, and Bestsellers Are Transforming a Culture

Chinatown, N.Y.: Labor and Politics, 1930–1950

Chinese America: The Untold Story of America's Oldest New Community

A sweeping portrait of one of America’s most distinctive communities from the bestselling author of The New Chinatown

The Chomsky-Foucault Debate: On Human Nature

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL two of the twentieth century’s most influential thinkers debate a perennial question

Chronicler of the Winds: A Novel

An award-winning new novel by the internationally acclaimed mystery writer

CIA in Latin America

Cigarettes: Anatomy of an Industry from Seed to Smoke

Wall Street Journal reporter Tara Parker-Pope presents the clearest picture yet of the most conspicuous consumer product on the planet, telling the fast-paced business story behind this 350 billion dollar industry.

The Citizen Machine: Governing by Television in 1950s America

The little-known civic mission of early television broadcasting, recounted by a star in Cinema Studies

Citizen You!: Helping Your Government Help Itself

City Kids, City Schools: More Reports from the Front Row

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL A follow-up to the classic collection on the realities of teaching and learning in urban schools

City Kids, City Teachers: Reports from the Front Row

PAPERBACK a classic collection exploding the stereotypes of city schools, reissued as a companion to City Kids, City Schools

A City Year: On the Streets and in the Neighborhoods with Twelve Young Community Service Volunteers

CityWorks: Exploring Your Community: A workbook

An innovative way for young people to understand their communities

Civil Wars: From L.A. to Bosnia

Class Notes: Posing as Politics and Other Thoughts on the American Scene

NOW IN PAPERBACK A “must read for thinking leftists” (Katha Pollitt of The Nation) from one of America’s most insightful intellectuals

The Class of ’75: Reflections on the Last Quarter of the 20th Century by Harvard Graduates

Midlife summations by more than 500 members of the Harvard Class of '75 on the occasion of their 25th reunion

Classroom Conversations: A Collection of Classics for Parents and Teachers

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL An outstanding collection of classic readings on teaching and learning from Dewey to Delpit—the age-old ritual of the parent-teacher conference will never be the same again

The Coffee Book: Anatomy of an Industry from Crop to the Last Drop

REVISED AND UPDATED A compact guide to the beverage that keeps us running

The Cold War and the University: Toward an Intellectual History of the Postwar Years

Leading intellectuals discuss the effects of the Cold War on academic freedom, intellectual life, and dissent in the academy.

Cold War Triumphalism: The Misuse of History After the Fall of Communism

NOW IN PAPERBACK The book that is provoking a major reexamination of the legacy of the cold war

Color Me English: Reflections on Migration and Belonging

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 Color of Politics: Race and the Mainsprings of American Politics

A well-documented and accessible look at race in the history of American Politics

The Color of Wealth: The Story Behind the U.S. Racial Wealth Divide

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL An eye-opening field guide to the wealth gap

Come Home with Me: A Multicultural Treasure Hunt

Coming of Age: Growing Up in the Twentieth Century

Inspired . . . the language spoken here is pure Terkel. —THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

Coming of Age Around the World: A Multicultural Anthology

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL Twenty-four stories by renowned international authors chronicle the modern struggle for identity among young people around the globe

Coming of Age in America: A Multicultural Anthology

PAPERBACK The acne and ecstasy of adolescence, a multicultural collection of short stories and fiction excerpts that Library Journal calls “wonderfully diverse from the standard fare,” in a beautiful new edition

Coming of Age in the 21st Century: Growing Up in America Today

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL A follow-up to the critically acclaimed and bestselling multicultural collection of stories about growing up in America—with new selections for a new century

Coming to Terms: A Literary Response to Abortion

Communication Revolution: Critical Junctures and the Future of Media

NOW IN PAPERBACK A controversial critique of media studies from the writer Mark Crispin Miller calls "the greatest of our media historians"

The Condor Years: How Pinochet and His Allies Brought Terrorism to Three Continents

The headline-grabbing story of the covert, international “anti-terrorist” network responsible for South America’s worst human rights abuses

Confessions of an Argentine Dirty Warrior: A Firsthand Account of Atrocity

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”

Conglomerates and the Media

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

The criminal disenfranchisement that affects millions of American citizens

The Conquest of Bread: 150 Years of Agribusiness in California

A sweeping analysis of California's agrarian history from 1850 to the present

Conspiracy in the Streets: The Extraordinary Trial of the Chicago Eight

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL On the stand with yippies, Black Panthers, and political activists at the conspiracy trial that defined the youth rebellion of the 1960s

Constitutional Myths: What We Get Wrong and How to Get It Right

From one of the country’s best-loved myth-busting historians, a revealing challenge to the misleading stories and tall tales that have assailed our founding document

The Consumer Society Reader

A unique and definitive reader of our national passion--"buying stuff"--and its consequences for American society.

Consuming Kids: The Hostile Takeover of Childhood

Corruption

"An engrossing depiction of a moral dilemma "(Booklist) from the north African winner of the prix Goncourt.

Cosmic Horizons: Astronomy at the Cutting Edge

Leading experts explain the discoveries of modern astrophysics in an illustrated companion to the American Museum of Natural History’s newly renovated Rose Center for Earth and Space

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

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

Creole Folktales

Crimes Against Humanity: The Struggle for Global Justice

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

Crimes of War: Guilt and Denial in the Twentieth Century

A controversial look at wartime atrocities, by a group of distinguished historians

The Crisis in American Trade Unions

The Crisis of Criticism

This "collection offers the undeniable pleasure of reading intellectually stimulating arguments" (Kirkus Reviews) on the controversial nature of artistic criticism

Critical Fictions: The Politics of Imaginative Writing: Discussions in Contemporary Culture #7

Critical Race Realism: Intersections of Psychology, Race, and Law

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

Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings That Formed the Movement

Critical Views of September 11: Analyses from Around the World

Leading American social scientists examine the new world after September 11

Crossing into America: The New Literature of Immigration

A literary portrait of immigrant America including contributions from celebrated authors, young writers, and undocumented workers

Crossing the Tracks: How “Untracking” Can Save America's Schools

A highly praised study of ways in which schools have successfully experimented with heterogeneous grouping in the classroom.

Crossroads: Art and Religion in American Life

Seven leading scholars and experts reveal the close ties between art and religion in American culture

Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962: A National Security Archive Documents Reader

The first paperback edition of the popular primary source reader, including many newly released documents. 

The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters

NOW IN PAPERBACK “the most comprehensive account yet of the [CIA’s] activities between 1947 and 1967” (The New York Times)

Culture on the Brink: Ideologies of Technology: Discussions in Contemporary Culture #9

Culture Wars: Documents from the Recent Controversies in the Arts

Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor / Hiroshima / 9-11 / Iraq

Pulitzer Prize– and National Book Award–winning historian John Dower returns with a groundbreaking comparison of the four definitive acts of violence in our time

The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way

Customs in Common: Studies in Traditional Popular Culture

The Czar’s Madman

Dangerous Liaisons: Blacks, Gays, and the Struggle for Equality

A groundbreaking book on intersections of race & sexuality.

A Dangerous Woman: The Graphic Biography of Emma Goldman

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL The anarchist and radical hero Emma Goldman, brought to vivid life in a graphic biography by an acclaimed artist

Daniel: A Novel

From the internationally bestselling author of the Kurt Wallander mysteries and The Man from Beijing, a deeply sympathetic, gripping tale of a young boy's harrowing odyssey from Africa to Sweden

The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World

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

Daughters of the Dust: The Making of an African American Woman’s Film

Dead Cities: And Other Tales

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

Dead Man in Paradise: Unraveling a Murder from a Time of Revolution

The award-winning story of a nephew’s search for the truth behind his uncle’s murder—described by CBC Radio as “equal parts Ian Rankin, Jan Morris and Joan Didion”

Dear Bruno

The Decline of American Power: The U.S. in a Chaotic World

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

Democracy: Discussions in Contemporary Culture #5

A Village Voice Best Book, this collection of essays examines the state of the democratic process and democratic ideals in America.

Depths: A Novel

A gripping, masterful novel from the world famous Henning Mankell, set off the coast of Sweden during World War I.

The Devil in Dover: An Insider’s Story of Dogma v. Darwin in Small-Town America

NOW IN PAPERBACK In the tradition of H.L. Mencken, a gifted reporter’s “unapologetic indictment of intelligent design, fundamentalist Christianity, and American journalism’s Insistence on objectivity in the face of clear untruths” (Columbia Journalism Review)

Devil in Dover: An Insider’s Story of Dogma v. Darwin in Small-Town America

Diary of a Harlem Schoolteacher

Diet for a Dead Planet: Big Business and the Coming Food Crisis

NOW IN PAPERBACK A timely indictment of industrial agriculture's threat to the future of food, health, and the environment

A Different Shade of Gray: Midlife and Beyond in the Inner City

NOW IN PAPERBACK An original look at urban aging by the Robert F. Kennedy Book Prize winner

Digital Destiny: New Media and the Future of Democracy

The celebrated media advocate's clarion call for new media to serve the public instead of corporate interests—and what's involved in this high-stakes struggle

Digital Disconnect: How Capitalism Is Turning the Internet Against Democracy

The Discipline of Hope: Learning from a Lifetime of Teaching

The first paperback edition of the master educator's insights from four decades in the classroom. 

Discovering America: Travels in the Land of Guns, God, and Corporate Gurus

An outsider’s irreverent and piercing look at the world’s remaining superpower

Discussions in Contemporary Culture # 1

Dismantling Desegregation: The Quiet Reversal of Brown v. Board of Education

"A wise...authoritative book" (Jonathan Kozol) on America's return to segregation.

Divided: The Perils of Our Growing Inequality

Over thirty leading economists, journalists, and scholars explore the most urgent issue of our times: the upward redistribution of wealth and income in America

Division Street: America

A new paperback edition of the groundbreaking book that first made Studs Terkel a household name

Divorce: An Oral Portrait

The Dogs of Riga: A Kurt Wallander Mystery

Bringing the acclaimed series to a close, The Dogs of Riga takes Detective Kurt Wallander across the Baltic to a disintegrating Soviet Union

Dr. Seuss & Co. Go to War: The World War II Editorial Cartoons of America’s Leading Comic Artists

Now in paperback: The captivating World War II–era political cartoons of Dr. Seuss alongside the work of legendary cartoonists Saul Steinberg, Al Hirschfeld, and others

Dr. Seuss Goes to War: The World War II Editorial Cartoons of Theodor Seuss Geisel

NOW IN PAPERBACK The bestselling treasure trove of World War II political cartoons by Dr. Seuss

Dream: Re-imagining Progressive Politics in an Age of Fantasy

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 Dream Life: Movies, Media, and the Mythology of the Sixties

A brilliant cultural history detailing the fascinating relationship between movies and American society in the 1960s

Dreamland: America at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century

A haunting look at America at the beginning of the century, from a cult favorite. 

Drylongso: A Self-Portrait of Black America

Early Black Photographers

Earth: Inside and Out

Leading experts explain our planet in an illustrated companion to the acclaimed American Museum of Natural History’s Hall of Planet Earth

East to America: Korean American Life Stories

Economic Apartheid in America: A Primer on Economic Inequality and Insecurity

REVISED PAPERBACK Following the 2004 presidential election, a graphic portrait of the growing gap between the rich and everyone else in America

Economics for the Rest of Us: Debunking the Science That Makes Life Dismal

Edge of the Knife: Police Violence in the Americas

Electoral Dysfunction: A Survival Manual for American Voters

Ellis Island

An exploration of Ellis Island from acclaimed French novelist Georges Perec and filmmaker Robert Bober.

Ellis Island and the Peopling of America: The Official Guide

A primary source reader and resource guide to Ellis Island and issues of immigration.

Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the 1999 National Book Award for Nonfiction, finalist for the Lionel Gelber Prize and the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize, Embracing Defeat is John W. Dower's brilliant examination of Japan in the immediate, shattering aftermath of World War II.

The Empire Strikes Out: How Baseball Sold U.S. Foreign Policy and Promoted the American Way Abroad

Mixing sharp political analysis and compelling lore, an eye-opening look at baseball’s relationship to American empire, from the revolutionary era to the present

The End of Privacy: How Total Surveillance Is Becoming a Reality

Now in paperback, a sobering look at the threats to privacy posed by the new information technologies. 

The End of the Line: How Overfishing Is Changing the World and What We Eat

Picking up where Cod left off, an “invaluable” (Financial Times) look at the global crisis of overfishing

Ending Poverty in America: How to Restore the American Dream

JOHN EDWARDS PUTS A SEMINAL ISSUE BACK ON THE MAP, PRESENTING BLUEPRINTS FOR ENDING POVERTY IN AMERICA

Enemy Aliens: Double Standards and Constitutional Freedoms in the War on Terrorism

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

Enemy Combatant: My Imprisonment at Guantánamo, Bagram, and Kandahar

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

English Is Broken Here: Notes on Cultural Fusion in the Americas

Epidemic!: The World of Infectious Disease

Equality and Democracy: A New Press Back-to-Basics Book

The first book in The New Press Back-to-Basics Series restates the importance of equality in an age of growing inequality. 

Essence of Camphor

Hauntingly beautiful short stories with strong affinities to Kafka and Borges, by one of the most original voices to emerge from India.

The Essential Chomsky

In a single volume, the seminal writings of the world’s leading philosopher, linguist, and critic, published to coincide with his eightieth birthday

The Essential E.P.Thompson

The Essential Foucault: Selections from Essential Works of Foucault, 1954-1984

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

The Essential Gunnar Myrdal

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL A comprehensive introduction to the world-renowned social scientist's political thought

The Essential Wallerstein

Key essays from the "prolific, provocative, 'big-picture theorist'" (Booklist) and originator of world-systems analysis. 

Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth

The definitive edition of Foucault's articles, interviews, and seminars.

Eugène Atget: Unknown Paris

Over 200 never-before-published photographs from one of the twentieth century's most innovative photographers.

European Universalism: The Rhetoric of Power

How ideas such as civilization and progress have been used as a smoke screen for Western dominance, by the world-renowned sociologist

Evangelical Does Not Equal Republican . . . Or Democrat

A leader of the new generation of progressive evangelicals reclaims her faith from partisan politics, in this debut book in the acclaimed "Does Not Equal" series

Every Handgun Is Aimed at You: The Case for Banning Handguns

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)

Everyday Antiracism: Getting Real About Race in School

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL Leading experts offer concrete and realistic strategies for dealing with race in schools in a groundbreaking book that should become required reading for every teacher in the country

Evil Paradises: Dreamworlds of Neoliberalism

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

Evita: In My Own Words

A new edition of the controversial “deathbed manuscript” attributed to Eva Perón

Ex Mex: From Migrants to Immigrants

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

Examined Life: Excursions with Contemporary Thinkers

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL Eight renowned thinkers take philosophy to the streets in interviews drawn from a 2008 Toronto International Film Festival premiere

Experiments in Knowing: Gender and Method in the Social Sciences

A breakthrough study of gender bias in the social sciences from a leading feminist scholar. 

"Exterminate All the Brutes": One Man's Odyssey into the Heart of Darkness and the Origins of European Genocide

PAPERBACK A new edition of the brilliant and unsettling intellectual history of Europe’s genocidal colonization of Africa

Extremely Loud: Sound as a Weapon

The Eye of the Leopard: A Novel

A haunting novel juxtaposing a man’s coming of age in Sweden with his life in Zambia, from the internationally bestselling author

The Fables of La Fontaine

Faceless Killers: A Kurt Wallander Mystery

First in the Kurt Wallander series, "a brilliant U.S. debut"(library jounal) from the successor to mystery writers Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo.

Failed Transitions: The Eastern European Economy and Enviroment Since the Fall of Communism

Fakers: Hoaxers, Con Artists, Counterfeiters, and Other Great Pretenders

For anyone who has ever lied—or been lied to—true-life tales about faking, from Clifford Irving to Stephen Glass, by an award-winning writer

Fallout: The Environmental Consequences of the World Trade Center Collapse

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

False Dawn: The Delusions of Global Capitalism

A powerful and prophetic challenge to globalization from a former partisan of the New Right.

Families and Freedom: A Documentary History of African-American Kinship in the Civil War Era

Family Matters: Readings on Family Lives and the Law

A reader that addresses the gap between existing legistration on familial issues and family lives as they are really lived today.

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

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

Fear in Chile: Lives Under Pinochet

NOW IN PAPERBACK first-person accounts of life in Pinochet’s Chile—“the perfect epitaph to a violent dictatorship” (Library Journal).

Feast: Radical Hospitality in Contemporary Art

Field Guide to the Global Economy

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

Field Guide to the U.S. Economy: A Compact and Irreverent Guide to Economic Life in America

The twenty-first-century handbook to the myths and realities of the U.S. economy

The Fifth Act

The remarkable, final filmscripts of acclaimed director Ingmar Bergman, available in English for the first time

The Fifth Woman: A Kurt Wallander Mystery

A chilling Kurt Wallander mystery from a "major voice in international crime fiction" (Booklist).

Fighting Words: An Illustrated History of Newspaper Accounts of the Civil War

NOW IN PAPERBACK An intriguing picture of life during the Civil War, through the newspapers of the period

Final Test: The Battle for Adequacy in America’s Schools

NOW IN PAPERBACK An in-depth look at "the brave new world of school finance" (Education Week) and the latest struggle for equality in public education

Fires in the Bathroom: Advice for Teachers from High School Students

NOW IN PAPERBACK The acclaimed book of practical advice from students to their teachers

Fires in the Middle School Bathroom: Advice for Teachers from Middle Schoolers

The highly anticipated sequel to the bestselling Fires in the Bathroom - Filled with practical, honest advice from middle school students to their teachers

Firewall: A Kurt Wallander Mystery

Mystery in the “exquisite” (Los Angeles Times Book Review), internationally bestselling Kurt Wallander series

Firing Back: Against the Tyranny of the Market 2

Globalization's threat to artists and intellectuals, and how they can rebut it. 

The First American Revolution: Before Lexington and Concord

A bold new interpretation of America’s founding moment

A Floating City of Peasants: The Great Migration in Contemporary China

A journalist’s riveting, eyewitness account of the unprecedented movement of 120 million peasants from rural China to its cities, told from the migrants’ point of view

Foodopoly: The Battle Over the Future of Food and Farming in America

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

For Reasons of State

Chomsky’s major works now reissued by The New Press

Forbidden Workers: Illegal Chinese Immigrants and American Labor

A "gripping exposé" (Publishers Weekly) of the conditions faced by Chinese illegal aliens in the United States.

Fortress Europe: Dispatches from a Gated Continent

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

Found Illusions

Founders: The People Who Brought You a Nation

Now in paperback: a "highly readable" (Library Journal) new history of America's revolution and nation building that will "delight readers" (Publisher's Weekly), from the bestselling author of Founding Myths

Founding Myths: Stories That Hide Our Patriotic Past

NOW IN PAPERBACK: The highly praised book in which cherished stories from American history are exposed as myths

Framing Innocence: A Mother's Photographs, a Prosecutor's Zeal, and a Small Town's Response

NOW IN PAPERBACK: The unforgettable story of how innocent photographs by a mother of her child became the heart of a wrenching legal battle that galvanized a small town to fight for justice, hailed by Booklist as “Fascinating . . . immediate and compelling”

Framing the Black Panthers: The Spectacular Rise of a Black Power Icon

A fascinating look at how the Black Panthers became symbols of black militancy in America

France Under the Germans: Collaboration and Compromise

The first major study of French citizens' behavior during the Nazi occupation.

Free at Last: A Documentary History of Slavery, Freedom, and the Civil War

A handsome new edition of an essential work by the groundbreaking historian of African American life in the nineteenth century

The Freedom: Shadows and Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq

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

Freedom's Unfinished Revolution: An Inquiry into the Civil War and Reconstruction

From the award-winning authors of Who Built America?, a groundbreaking highschool level presentation of the Civil War and Reconstruction.

The Freedoms We Lost: Consent and Resistance in Revolutionary America

A brilliant and original examination of American freedom as it existed before the Revolution, from the Smithsonian’s curator of social history

The French and Their Revolution: Selected Writings

Illuminating essays on daily life during the French Revolution from a master historian.

French Philosophy Since 1945: Problems, Concepts, Inventions, Postwar French Thought IV

The long-awaited final volume in The New Press Postwar French Thought Series, with excerpts from key works of the leading postwar French philosophers, from Sartre to Lacan

From Cairo to Wall Street: Voices from the Global Spring

“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

From Dictatorship to Democracy: A Conceptual Framework for Liberation

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)

From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend: A Short, Illustrated History of Labor in the United States

NOW IN PAPERBACK A “marvelously informed, carefully-crafted, far-ranging history of working people” (Noam Chomsky)

From Welfare State to Real Estate: Regime Change in New York City, 1974 to the Present

City of Quartz meets Gotham—the dark side of the glittering metropolis

Front Lines: Political Plays by American Women

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

Fuel on the Fire: Oil and Politics in Occupied Iraq

Fukushima: The Story of a Nuclear Disaster

The edge-of-your-seat story of the meltdown of the Fukushima nuclear power plant by nuclear scientists and a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist— published to coincide with the third anniversary

Fuller's Earth: A Day with Buckminster Fuller and the Kids

Perhaps the most lovable and personal portrait ever produced of visionary Buckminster Fuller--the man who has been called "the planet's friendly genius."

The Future Lasts Forever: A Memoir

The famous French philosopher's "harrowing" (Voice Literary Supplement) account of madness from the inside.

Game Over: How Politics Has Turned the Sports World Upside Down

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

Gay and Lesbian Stats: A Pocket Guide of Facts and Figures

Gender on Planet Earth

An iconoclastic feminist’s provocative analysis of gender inequality’s destructive effects on our society and our planet

The Genius of Impeachment: The Founders' Cure for Royalism

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

The German Army and Genocide: Crimes Against War Prisoners, Jews, and Other Civilians, 1939–1944

An astonishing visual exposé of the German Army's crimes in World War II. 

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

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

Getting In, Getting Out: A College Counselor, His Students, and the Dream of a Life Outside Poverty

Giants of Jazz

NOW IN PAPERBACK A beautifully illustrated edition of Studs Terkel’s timeless portraits of America’s jazz legends, for readers of all ages

The Gift Relationship: From Human Blood to Social Policy

An updated edition of the classic study of blood donating that revolutionized thinking about the organization of medical care.

Global Capitalism

NOW IN PAPERBACK an “illuminating exploration of the fast-changing landscape of capitalism” (Nature)

Global Finance at Risk: The Case for International Regulation

Now in paperback, a "timely" (Library Journal) argument for an international body that will foster a more stable, viable global financial system.

Global Inc.: An Atlas of the Multinational Corporation

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

The Global Sweatshop

Globalization and Its Discontents: Essays on the New Mobility of People and Money

Groundbreaking essays on the new global economy from an "expert observer" (Forecast).

God Needs No Passport: Immigrants and the Changing American Religious Landscape

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

Going Public: Schooling for a Diverse Democracy

An historically informed overview of the multicultural education debate from a leading advocate.

Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage

NOW IN PAPERBACK A sobering exploration of our high-octane trash output that was named an editor’s choice by the New York Times and a nonfiction choice by The Guardian

Good Cops: The Case for Preventive Policing

A new, preventive approach to reducing crime from the renowned expert on policing

Good Courts: The Case for Problem-Solving Justice

How innovative judges and attorneys are transforming American courts

"The Good War": An Oral History of World War II

This first trade paperback edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book features a new Preface by the author.

The Gospel According to Sarah: How Sarah Palin's Tea Party Angels Are Galvanizing the Religious Right

Grand Illusion: The Myth of Voter Choice in a Two-Party Tyranny

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

Greening International Law

A look at new international laws designed to control the environment.

Gristle: From Factory Farms to Food Safety (Thinking Twice About the Meat We Eat)

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL - For omnivores and vegans alike, a hard-hitting and eye-opening guide to the meat you eat, by the world’s most famous vegan

Group Dynamics: Family Portraits and Scenes of Everyday Life at the New-York Historical Society

Growing Up Gay/Growing Up Lesbian: A Literary Anthology

An award-winning collection of over fifty gay and lesbian coming-of-age stories. 

Growing Up Poor: A Literary Anthology

A searingly candid look at growing up "without", edited by the Pulitzer Prize--winning author of the Children of Crisis series.

Guantánamo: The War on Human Rights

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

Guests and Aliens

A penetrating analysis of the history of migration and refugees, from a leading expert in the field. 

Gun Show Nation: Gun Culture and American Democracy

NOW IN PAPERBACK A stunning new exposé of the roots of American gun culture

Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression

Hard Times: An Illustrated Oral History of the Great Depression

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

Harlem on My Mind: Cultural Capital of Black America, 1900–1968

PAPERBACK “Harlem on My Mind provoked outrage in 1969. The issues it raised are no less alive today.” —The New York Times, 1995

Hatchet Jobs: Writings on Contemporary Fiction

NOW IN PAPERBACK The cover may have softened, but the polemic remains durable

The Health of Nations: Why Inequality Is Harmful to Your Health

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

Hearts and Minds: A People's History of Counterinsurgency

Paperback Original: From Malaya and Vietnam to Iraq and Afghanistan, leading scholars and journalists unravel the myth and challenge the efficacy of counterinsurgency

Hell No: Your Right to Dissent in Twenty-First-Century America

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL A snappy guide to reclaiming the right to dissent—perfect for activists, teachers, grandmothers, and anyone else who wants to exercise their constitutional rights—from the country's leading constitutional rights group

Help Wanted: Tales from the First Job Front

Her First American: A Novel

The Herb Kohl Reader: Awakening the Heart of Teaching

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL – The best writing from a lifetime in the trenches and at the typewriter, from the renowned and much-beloved National Book Award-winning educator

Hidden Agendas

Historians in Trouble: Plagiarism, Fraud, and Politics in the Ivory Tower

NOW IN PAPERBACK The revealing and much-discussed look behind the scenes of recent headline-grabbing controversies in the history profession

Histories: French Constructions of the Past, Postwar French Thought, Volume 1

History in the Making: An Absorbing Look at How American History Has Changed in the Telling over the Last 200 Years

NOW IN PAPERBACK A fascinating reminder of how contemporary prejudices color the way each generation looks at the nation’s past

History Lessons: How Textbooks from Around the World Portray U.S. History

NOW IN PAPERBACK The widely contrasting approaches to U.S. history that can be found in the textbooks of other nations

A History of Bombing

A daring literary and historical look at the ideologies of war and violence, by the author of “Exterminate All the Brutes”

history of modern India

Hitler’s Exiles: Personal Stories of the Flight from Nazi Germany to America

Home Fronts: A Wartime America Reader

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL — An illuminating documentary history that reveals the effects of U.S. Military ventures overseas on more than a century of American life at home

Hoodwinked: The Documents That Reveal How Bush Sold Us a War

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

Hooked: Five Addicts Challenge Our Misguided Drug Rehab System

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)

Hope Dies Last: Keeping the Faith in Troubled Times

The latest oral history from the unrivaled master of the genre

Hospital: An Oral History

How Kindergarten Came to America: Friedrich Froebel’s Radical Vision of Early Childhood Education

Celebrated education reformer Herbert Kohl introduces a series of classics in progressive education to a new generation

How PowerPoint Makes You Stupid: The Faulty Causality, Sloppy Logic, Decontextualized Data, and Seductive Showmanship That Have Taken Over Our Thinking

How to Read a Secret Document: From Spy Photos and Wiretaps to Offshore Balance Sheets

Howard Zinn: A Life on the Left

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

Husband of a Fanatic: A Personal Journey Through India, Pakistan, Love, and Hate

A lyrical journey into the heart of hatred

I Die, But My Memory Lives On: The World AIDS Crisis and the Memory Book Project

Internationally bestselling mystery author Henning Mankell explores the new African tradition of memory books, written by parents dying of AIDS for their children

If I Could Write This in Fire: An Anthology of Literature from the Caribbean

If You Lived Here: The City in Art, Theory, and Social Activism: Discussions in Contemporary Culture #6

The Impact of Inequality: How to Make Sick Societies Healthier

NOW IN PAPERBACK A groundbreaking inquiry into the relationship between societies’ inequality and their citizens’ happiness and well-being

In America’s Court: How a Civil Lawyer Who Likes to Settle Stumbled into a Criminal Trial

The smart, funny, and compelling story of criminal justice and the injustice from the author of Which Side Are You On?

In Praise of Love

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

In Time of War: Hitler's Terrorist Attack on America

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

The Indispensable Zinn: The Essential Writings of the "People's Historian"

Industry and Empire: The Birth of the Industrial Revolution

An updated edition of the classic study of the Industrial Revolution by "one of the few genuinely great historians of our century" (The New Republic).

Inequality Matters: The Growing Economic Divide in America and Its Poisonous Consequences

Leading American scholars and activists explore the question our leaders have been working overtime to ignore

The Infernal Machine: A History of Terrorism

NOW IN PAPERBACK — A highly accessible account of the history of terrorism that places 9/11 and Al Qaeda in historical context

Information Feudalism: Who Owns the Knowledge Economy?

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

Inside U.S.A.

The fiftieth anniversary edition of Gunther's classic portrait of America.

Interesting Times: A Twentieth-Century Life

Wonderfully written, impeccably researched biographies or memoirs of the men of the 20th century

Intimacy and Terror: Soviet Diaries of the 1930s

Inventing the Axis of Evil: The Truth About North Korea, Iran, and Syria

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

The Invisible Heart: Economics and Family Values

A brilliant new approach to the economics of caregiving, from the MacArthur Award–winning economist

Invisible Punishment: The Collateral Consequences of Mass Imprisonment

A wide-ranging look at the true cost to society of our current approach to criminal justice, from the nation's foremost criminologist

Iran: A People Interrupted

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

The Iran-Contra Scandal: The Declassified History

Iraq: The Logic of Withdrawal

A forceful argument for the immediate withdrawal of troops from Iraq

Iraq and the Lessons of Vietnam: Or, How Not to Learn from the Past

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

Islam Does Not Equal Fundamentalism

Islam Explained

NOW IN PAPERBACK A uniquely accessible introduction to Islam, by the celebrated author of Racism Explained to My Daughter

Italian Shoes: A Novel

From the bestselling creator of Kurt Wallander, the intimate, involving story of an aging man’s unexpected redemption after years of isolation

I’m Gone: A Novel

Jane Fonda's Words of Politics and Passion

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

Jane Fonda’s War: A Political Biography of an Antiwar Icon

An antidote to the "Hanoi Jane" myth, the first account of the celebrated actress's antiwar activism

Japan at War: An Oral History

PAPERBACK A timely fifteenth anniversary reissue of a “deeply moving book” (Studs Terkel) that portrays the Japanese experience during World War II in all its complexity

Japan in War and Peace: Selected Essays

Here, Dower offers a collection of essays on Japan and its complex relations with the U.S. over the past half century.

Jean-Paul Sartre: A Life

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

The Jewish Gospels: The Story of the Jewish Christ

Jews and American Comics: An Illustrated History of an American Art Form

A treasure trove of Jewish comic book art by both acknowledge masters and little known-stars, from Rube Goldberg to Aline Kominsky Crumb

Jews for Buchanan: Did You Hear the One About the Theft of the American Presidency?

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

Judaism Does Not Equal Israel

A profound and provocative challenge to unquestioned Jewish support for Israel and its policies from the internationally renowned Jewish thinker Marc H. Ellis—the latest volume in the acclaimed Does Not Equal Series

Justice Talking: Censoring the Web: Leading Advocates Debate Today’s Most Controversial Issues

Prominent attorneys debate web censorship and school vouchers in the first  two volumes of a compelling new book-and-CD series inspired by the popular National Public Radio program Justice Talking

Justice Talking: School Vouchers: Leading Advocates Debate Today’s Most Controversial Issues

Prominent attorneys debate web censorship and school vouchers in the first  two volumes of a compelling new book-and-CD series inspired by the popular National Public Radio program Justice Talking

Keeping Down the Black Vote: Race and the Demobilization of American Voters

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

Kennedy’s Brain: A Novel

Internationally bestselling novelist Henning Mankell delivers a terrifying thriller inspired by the tragedy of the AIDS epidemic in Africa

Kids for Cash: Two Judges, Thousands of Children, and a $2.8 Million Kickback Scheme

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

Kill Khalid: The Failed Mossad Assassination of Khalid Mishal and the Rise of Hamas

NOW IN PAPERBACK “A must-read,” (Jon Lee Anderson) that offers a gripping account of the botched assassination attempt of Khalid Mishal, which became a pivotal moment in the rise of Hamas

Killing Machine: The American Presidency in the Age of Drone Warfare

From the “devastatingly effective” (Andrew Bacevich) chronicler of American foreign policy, a scathing new assessment of the American presidency and U.S. global power

Kindergarten: A Teacher, Her Students, and a Year of Learning

The Kissinger Transcripts: The Top-Secret Talks with Beijing and Moscow

Now in paperback, a "fascinating trove" (New York Review of Books) of transcripts of some of Kissinger's most secret conversations with world leaders.

Knowledges: Culture, Counterculture, Subculture

Now in paperback, a sweeping look at "primitive belief" versus "scientific knowledge," by the author of the renowned The Trumpet Shall Sound.

Korean War

Koretsky: The Soviet Photo Poster: 1930-1984

A groundbreaking, lavishly illustrated introduction to Viktor Koretsky, the acknowledged master of Soviet propaganda art

Labor Rising: The Past and Future of Working People in America

The Land Where the Blues Began

Winner of a 1993 National Book Critics Circle award, a rollicking memoir of the legendary folklorist's journey into blues country

The Last Friend: A Novel

From the winner of the 2004 Impac Prize, a classic story of friendship and betrayal

The Last Gun: How Changes in the Gun Industry Are Killing Americans and What It Will Take to Stop It

From the influential gun control advocate and author, a startling new analysis of guns and gun violence—in a book that shows the path to a safer future

The Last Innocent White Man in America: And Other Writings

"Essays with everything that counts: wisdom, passion, and most of all, the generosity of great criticism" (San Francisvo Chronicle), on everything from Nixon's secret love affair with Elvis to the Reagan gerontocracy's "theology of greed" to assessments of writers as diverse as Toni Morrison and Gunter Grass.

The Last Three Miles: Politics, Murder, and the Construction of America's First Superhighway

In the tradition of Robert Caro’s The Power Broker, a sweeping, investigative history of the building of the road connecting Manhattan to the rest of the country

Latin America After Neoliberalism: Turning the Tide in the 21st Century?

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL A primer on the social and economic changes sweeping across contemporary Latin America

Law and History: The Evolution of the American Legal System

A "strong, fluent, and valuable" (New York Law Journal) look at the evolution of the American legal system. 

Law in a Lawless Land: Diary of a Limpieza in Colombia

A disturbing chronicle of the terror and uncertainty of daily life in Colombia's American-funded civil war.

Law Lit: From Atticus Finch to The Practice

NOW IN PAPERBACK — The collection of fiction and poetry that Christopher Buckley called "a brilliant compendium of writing about the law, by one of the coolest, hippest, and smartest legal brains in the business"

Lawyers: A Critical Reader

A groundbreaking collection of writing exploring the rapidly changing legal profession.

Legal Lynching: The Death Penalty and America’s Future

An urgent, eloquent call for the abolition of the death penalty in America, from the father and son who are leading the fight against state-sponsored execution

Lesbians, Gay Men, and the Law (1st E): A Reader

Less Safe, Less Free: Why America Is Losing the War on Terror

NOW IN PAPERBACK — Winner of the first Roy C. Palmer Civil Liberties prize, the book Zbigniew Brzezinski calls "a timely and unsparing exposure of the disastrous consequences of the 'war on terror' demagogy of the Bush administration"

Lessons from the Heartland: A Turbulent Half-Century of Public Education in an Iconic American City

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

Lessons of Empire: Imperial Histories and American Power

A timely exploration of one of the big geopolitical questions of our time

Let the Good Times Roll: Prostitution and the U.S. Military in Asia

Let's Get Free: A Hip-Hop Theory of Justice

NOW IN PAPERBACK: In a book Library Journal calls “required reading for all concerned about their neighborhoods and our criminal justice system,” a former federal prosecutor’s radical argument for reform

Letters of Transit: Reflections of Exile, Identity, Language, and Loss

Haunting reflections on exile and memory from five award-winning authors.

The Lexicon of Labor: More Than 500 Key Terms, Biographical Sketches, and Historical Insights Concerning Labor in America

PAPERBACK A thoroughly updated edition of the clever, fun-to-read compilation of union language and lore

Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong

Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

A completely revised hardcover edition of James W. Loewen’s classic retelling of American history, based on six new textbooks and containing an all-new chapter on the recent past

Lies My Teacher Told Me About Christopher Columbus: What Your History Books Got Wrong

The American book award winner’s long out-of-print, myth-busting poster book, sure to be of interest to the million-plus buyers of Lies My Teacher Told Me

A Life in Medicine: A Literary Anthology

Life Isn’t All Ha Ha Hee Hee

The hilarious and moving novel from the prizewinning author of Anita and Me.

Lift Every Voice: The NAACP and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement

Now in paperback: an epic narrative of the struggle against injustice, hailed as "the definitive history of the NAACP" by Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Lightning: A Novel

Like a Hurricane: The Indian Movement from Alcatraz to Wounded Knee

A gripping account of a defining period of Native Amerian radical protest.

Lines of Fate: A Novel

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year, hailed in Europe and the United States as a new classic of modern Russian fiction in the grand tradition of Nabokov and Gogol.

Literary Debate: Texts and Contexts, Postwar French Thought, Volume II

Now available in paperback, key texts from leading theorists in postwar French literary criticism.

Literature from the "Axis of Evil": Writing from Iran, Iraq, North Korea, and Other Enemy Nations

NOW IN PAPERBACK “The book every American should read this year.” —The Bloomsbury Review

Lives We Carry with Us: Profiles of Moral Courage

A dozen brilliant portraits by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author Andrew Greeley described as a “social scientist, humanist, political activist, psychiatrist, minstrel, wandering storytelling, mystic, wise man, poet dissenter"

Living "Illegal": The Human Face of Unauthorized Immigration

A myth-busting account of the tragedies, tales of success, and ambiguities of undocumented immigration—the stories behind the overheated rhetoric in the news

The Living Wage: Building a Fair Economy

The first comprehensive examination of the economic concept now being implemented across the nation with dramatic results.

Lonesome Rangers: Homeless Minds, Promised Lands, Fugitive Cultures

An exciting and far reaching new book on writers and exile by the leading literary critic John Leonard.

The Long Road to Baghdad: A History of U.S. Foreign Policy from the 1970s to the Present

The renowned diplomatic historian looks back at the ideas, policies, and decisions that led from Vietnam to the Iraq war and to America's disastrous new role in the Middle East

Looking Left: Socialism in Europe After the Cold War

Europe's most respected historians turn their attention to the fate of the Left of Europe.

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

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

Lost Liberties: Ashcroft and the Assault on Personal Freedom

Essays on various aspects of the Ashcroft Justice Department’s threat to civil liberties in the wake of September 11, featuring a long list of ACLU and OSI-style luminaries.

The Lost Soul of Higher Education: Corporatization, the Assault on Academic Freedom, and the End of the American University

The response to Tenured Radicals and Illiberal Education—a major critique of how political and financial attacks on the academy are undermining our system of higher education

Loving This Planet: Leading Thinkers Talk About How to Make a Better World

Low Pay, High Profile: The Global Push for Fair Labor

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL Anti-sweatshop activist and commentator Andrew Ross reports on the inventiveness of low-pay campaigners around the world

Lula and the Workers Party in Brazil

A new edition examining the electoral victory and record of the left government in Latin America’s largest country

The Lure of the Local: Senses of Place in a Multicentered Society

PAPERBACK the classic exploration of our multiple senses of place, by one of America’s most influential art writers

The Machine: A Field Guide to the Resurgent Right

Paperback Original: An exposé and compendium of the right-wing forces deployed to bring down the Obama presidency, from the lauded young researcher who revealed the role of the Koch brothers in American politics

Made in America: Immigrant Students in Our Public Schools

PAPERBACK with a new introduction by author Laurie Olsen, this timely reissue probes the challenges facing teachers and immigrant students in our public schools

Making a Killing: The Business Of Guns in America

A comprehensive exposé of the gun industry's efforts to increase profits by aggressively manufacturing and marketing more lethal and concealable guns.

Making History: Writings on History and Culture

The leading historian's essays on history and literature, published posthumously.

Making Love: A Novel

A stark, ultramodern novel of an affair's disintegration.

The Making of the Soviet System: Essays in the Social History of Interwar Russia

The classic study of Russian society and government.

Making Peace with the Planet

A critique of the recent efforts to address and control environmental damage from the country's best-known environmentalist.

Making Work Pay: America After Welfare

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

The Man Who Smiled: A Kurt Wallander Mystery

At last the long–awaited fourth mystery in the internationally bestselling Kurt Wallander series

Manifesto for a New World Order

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

The Martin Duberman Reader: The Essential Historical, Biographical, and Autobiographical Writings

The Mask of Motherhood: How Becoming a Mother Changes Everything and Why We Pretend It Doesn't

Erma Bombeck meets Naomi Wolf--a funny, articulate, right-on-the-money look at being a new mother in the 90's.

Mass Incarceration on Trial: America's Courts and the Future of Imprisonment

The Match: A Novel

The Booker Prize–nominated author’s brilliant new novel about growing up, growing apart, and finding one’s place in the world

Math and Science Across Cultures: Activities and Investigations from the Exploratorium

Innovative, hands-on math and science activities of many cultures, from one of the world’s foremost science museums

A Matter of Law: A Memoir of Struggle in the Cause of Equal Rights

A major new memoir by the man who argued Brown v. Board

A Matter of Opinion

May It Please the Court: Live Recordings and Transcripts of Landmark Oral Arguments Made Before the Supreme Court Since 1955

PAPERBACK/CDS A new edition of the bestselling book-and-audio set of supreme court oral arguments—now available on MP3 audio CDs*

May It Please the Court: Arguments on Abortion: Live Recordings and Transcripts of Supreme Court Oral Arguments on Reproductive Rights

May It Please the Court: Courts, Kids, and the Constitution: Live Recordings and Transcripts of Sixteen Supreme Court Oral Arguments on the Constitutional Rights of Students and Teachers

May It Please the Court: The First Amendment: Live Recordings and Transcripts of the Oral Arguments Made Before the Supreme Court in Sixteen Key First Amendment Cases

A stirring sequel to the bestselling original book-and-tape set, featuring recordings and transcripts of sixteen First Amendment cases involving issues from flag burning to the Pentagon Papers

May It Please the Court: The First Amendment: Transcripts of the Oral Arguments Made Before the Supreme Court in Sixteen Key First Amendment Cases

The Maze of Fear: Security and Migration After 9/11

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

McLibel: Burger Culture on Trial

Two environmentalists take on a multinational, multibillion-dollar-a-year corporation.

Media and Empire (McChesney & Foster)

Mexican Lives

A moving and insightful look into the daily struggles of a cross-section of Mexicans.

The Mexican Revolution

NOW IN PAPERBACK The classic account of the Mexican Revolution from the acclaimed author

The Mexican Shock: Its Meaning for the United States

"The leading Mexican voice in the U.S. media" (In These Times) on politics and economics in Mexico and their effects on the U.S.

Minding the Store: Great Writing About Business, from Tolstoy to Now

Entertaining and illuminating literary selections that explore the ethical quandaries of the workplace, collected by the Pulitzer prize-winning author of the Moral Lives of Children

Mining the Museum: Rethinking the Institution

Mismeasuring Our Lives: Why GDP Doesn't Add Up

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL: A major, timely new report on why GDP is a deeply flawed indicator of economic performance and social progress—and how to develop better indicators of societal well-being—by the renowned Nobel Prize–winning economists

The Missing

A Times Literary Supplement International Book of the Year, a fascinating meditation on missing persons.

Mixed Blessings: New Art in a Multicultural America

Now in paperback, the classic book that defined the multicultural art movement, updated with a new introduction.

Modern Metropolis: Artists’ Images of New York from the Museum of the City of New York

A Moment of War: A Memoir of the Spanish Civil War

A New York Times notable book of the year, the autobiography of a young Englishman in the Spanish Civil War.

The Monkey Suit: And Other Short Fiction on African Americans and Justice

Now in paperback, "rich and engaging" (Emerge) short stories on African Americans and the law in the tradition of Derrick Bell and Richard Wright.

Monkfish Moon: Short Stories

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year, stunning short stories from a young Sri Lankan writer.

The Monster at Our Door: The Global Threat of Avian Flu

From the acclaimed writer The Nation calls the "master of disaster prose," a terrifying forecast of a new global threat

The Moral Underground: How Ordinary Americans Subvert an Unfair Economy

Movies on Trial: The Legal System on the Silver Screen

An absorbing and unexpected analysis of the way popular films influence our view of the law. 

Moyers on America: A Journalist and His Times

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

Mr. Galloway Goes to Washington: The Brit Who Set Congress Straight About Iraq

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

Muckraking!: The Journalism That Changed America

Over 100 classics of American investigative journalism, from Tom Paine to Bob Woodward

Muhammad

Back in print, a definitive and fascinating introduction to the life, ideas, and impact of the founder of Islam

"Multiplication Is for White People": Raising Expectations for Other People’s Children

The Muses Go to School: Inspiring Stories About the Importance of Arts in Education

Celebrated artists and educators make the compelling case that the arts belong at the heart of the American education system—an eloquent answer to those who think high standards don't include the arts

My Father's War: A Novel

The stunning bestselling Dutch novel, called "a beautiful realized novel" by the New York Times Book Review.

My Phantom Husband

An astonishing work of fiction from France's "best young novelist" (The New Yorker), the internationally acclaimed author of Pig Tales.

Myths of Free Trade: Why American Trade Policy Has Failed

NOW IN PAPERBACK A revised and updated edition of the provocative book from the man Studs Terkel calls
“one of the hippest members of congress”

Naming the Jungle: A Novel

A novel of political and psychological intrigue from one of France's most innovative and visionary authors.

The Native American Look Book: Art and Activities for Kids from The Brooklyn Museum

Nazi Anti-Semitism: From Prejudice to the Holocaust

From a leading historian of Nazi Germany, a new exploration of the evolution of policies that led to the horror of the Holocaust

The Nazis: A Warning from History

PAPERBACK A new edition of the lavishly illustrated companion to the BBC documentary, with rare archival material and photographs documenting the reality of daily life in Nazi Germany

The New American Crisis: Radical Analyses of the Problems Facing America Today

America's leading progressive thinkers consider what is possible in the current conservative climate.

The New American Empire: A 21st Century Teach-In on U.S. Foreign Policy

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

The New Americans: Seven Families Journey to Another Country

NOW IN PAPERBACK “Fresh, nuanced and insightful. . . . [A] thoughtful, readable contribution to the immigration debates."  —HOUSTON CHRONICLE

The New Black: What Has Changed—and What Has Not—with Race in America

The New Blue Media: How Michael Moore, MoveOn.org, Jon Stewart and Company Are Transforming Progressive Politics

The penetrating-and entertaining-story of the rise of a new generation of liberal media figures, from Jon Stewart and Michael Moore to Moveon and the Blue Blogosphere

new Bourdieu book

The New Education: Progressive Education One Hundred Years Ago Today

Classics in progressive education—a series edited by Herbert Kohl

The New Field Guide to the U.S. Economy: A Compact and Irreverent Guide to Economic Life in America

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Available January 2012 in paperback! The "explosive debut" (Kirkus) from a rising legal star in America arguing that we have not ended racial caste in America—we have simply redesigned it

A New Leaf: The End of Cannabis Prohibition

Paperback Original: The most vivid and comprehensive account yet of the rocky road to cannabis legalization — and where we are headed next — by two award-winning journalists

The New Nuclear Danger: George W. Bush’s Military-Industrial Complex

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

The New Press Education Reader: Leading Educators Speak Out

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL An outstanding collection of the best writing from America’s foremost voices in progressive education

The New Press Guide to Multicultural Resources for Young Readers

A comprehensive guide to multicultural children's literature, featuring more than 1,000 critical book reviews, and essays.

The New Protectionism

The New Victorians: Poverty, Politics, and Propaganda in Two Gilded Ages

A controversial history of the Victorian roots of today’s conservative anti-welfare crusaders

The New War Business

Next Year in Jerusalem: Everyday Life in a Divided Land

From a pioneering Israeli human rights activist, a stirring memoir on life in the troubled region

No Equal Justice: Race and Class in the American Criminal Justice System

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                

Nobel Lectures: From the Literature Laureates, 1986 to 2006

NOW IN PAPERBACK — Twenty-one of the world’s greatest writers offer a "liberating message about the power of language" (Bloomsbury Review)

The North China Lover: A Novel

An elegant new paperback edition of one of Marguerite Duras’s most important books

North Korea: Another Country

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

Not Only for Myself: Identity, Politics, and the Law

A "moderate, judicious...look at identity politics" (Kirkus Reviews) by one of our leading legal thinkers.

Not Written in Stone: Learning and Unlearning American History Through 200 Years of Textbooks

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL: In the great tradition of James R Loewen's Lies My Teacher Told Me, a teaching version of the book that offers a crash course in the “history of history,” and how contemporary prejudices color the way each generation looks at the nation’s past

Notes on the Occupation: Palestinian Lives

A rare, inside look at real life in the West Bank, introduced by one of the world’s leading Palestinian intellectuals

Nothing to Hide: Mental Illness in the Family

A compelling collection of family photographs and moving first-person narratives about people living with mental illness

Nuclear Power Is Not the Answer

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

Objectivity and Liberal Scholarship

Chomsky's classic analysis of the liberal scholarship that justified American foreign policy and aggression during the 1960s.

Offshore: Tax Havens and the Rule of Global Crime

A paradigm-shifting new argument that views offshore tax havens as the platform for the criminal control of a large part of the global economy

Oil: A Concise Guide to the Most Important Product on Earth

NOW IN PAPERBACK “[A] well-researched, informative book, one of the best on the subject.” —THE WASHINGTON POST

Oil: The Worldwide Conflict Over Energy

On Anarchism

Paperback Original: The essential primer to the political theory of the thinker the New York Times deemed “arguably the most important intellectual alive”

On Empire: America, War, and Global Supremacy

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

On History

Esays on the study and practice of history from "one of the few genuinely great historians of our century" (The New Republic).

On Intersectionality: The Essential Writings of Kimberlé Crenshaw

On Language: Chomsky's Classic Works Language and Responsibility and Reflections on Language

PAPERBACK Two of Chomsky’s most famous and accessible works available in an affordable and attractive new paperback edition

On Television

On the Beaten Track: Tourism, Art, and Place

A critical look at tourism and nostalgia from the bestselling author of Mixed Blessings

On the Edge of the New Century

NOW IN PAPERBACK a short, hard-hitting sequel to The Age of Extremes by the “best-known living historian in the world” (The Times, London).

One Hundred Jobs: A Panorama of Work in the American City

An extraordinary illustrated portrait of work in contemporary America.

One Hundred Years of Socialism: The West European Left in the Twentieth Century

A brilliant look at alternatives to capitalism.

One Step Behind: A Kurt Wallander Mystery

The latest in the prizewinning Kurt Wallander mystery series from the writer Booklist calls “a major voice in international crime fiction.”

The One That Got Away: Short Stories

A beautifully wrought set of interconnected short stories that J.M. Coetzee says “combine the coolly interrogative gaze of the outsider with an insider’s intimate warmth”

One World or None: A Report to the Public on the Full Meaning of the Atomic Bomb

A timely reissue of a 1946 New York Times bestseller, in which the world’s leading nuclear scientists (including five Nobel laureates) warn of the dangers of a nuclear world

Only Love Can Break Your Heart

"With an intelligence and unsparing lucidity reminiscent of Joan Didion’s work circa Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1968), Mr. Samuels has written some of the best long-form literary journalism of the past decade."

—Michael Washburn,The New York Observer

Only One Thing Can Save Us: Why Our Country Needs to Snap Out of It and Have a New Kind of Labor Movement

From the author of Were You Born on the Wrong Continent? and NBCC finalist Which Side Are You On?, a galvanizing new argument for the revitalization of American unions

Open Fire: The Open Magazine Pamphlet Series Anthology

Essays by Noam Chomsky, Edward Said, Mike Davis, and others, from a leading progressive magazine.

The Origins of Nazi Violence

A leading social scientist’s depiction of the Holocaust as the culmination of liberal, European modernization

The Other Israel: Voices of Refusal and Dissent

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

Other People’s Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom

An updated edition of the classic revolutionary analysis of the role of race in the classroom

Other People’s Houses: A Novel

An immensely impressive, unclassifiable book.  —New Republic

Other People’s Money: The Corporate Mugging of America

NOW IN PAPERBACK In a widely acclaimed exposé, a former Wall street insider reveals how business executives and politicians schemed their way to the bank

Our Daily Poison: From Pesticides to Packaging, How Chemicals Have Contaminated the Food Chain and Are Making Us Sick

From the acclaimed author of The World According to Monsanto, a shocking account of the dangerous chemical compounds that have infiltrated our food chain

Our Unfree Press: 100 Years of Radical Media Criticism

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL From a bestselling authority on corporations and the media, an anthology about the fight to keep the media free from corporate interference

Out of the Classroom and into the World: Learning from Field Trips, Educating from Experience, and Unlocking the Potential of Our Students and Teachers

 PAPERBACK ORIGINAL: An accessible new resource for educators everywhere that eloquently makes the case for letting children and teachers out of the classroom to open their minds to learning

Over Exposed: Essays on Contemporary Photography

Renowned photographers and critics address the major controversies in photography today.

Overlay: Contemporary Art and Art of Prehistory

A groundbreaking look at the parallels between contemporary art and prehistoric art, by the author of Mixed Blessings.

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

Essays on the complex relations between Native Americans and European Americans as seen through photography.

Past Imperfect: A Museum Looks at Itself

A provocative look at the values behind a museum collection.

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 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: 250 Years of Activist Art and Artists Working in Social Justice Movements

Inspired by the pathbreaking work of Howard Zinn, a book that takes American art history out of the museum and into the streets

A People’s History of Poverty in America

Now in paperback: An “exceptionally thought-provoking and troubling” (City Limits) history of poverty in America, 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 U.S. Military: Ordinary Soldiers Reflect on Their Experience of War, from the American Revolution to Afghanistan

A People’s History of the United States: Abridged Teaching Edition

Newly revised, with chapters on the Clinton presidency, the 2000 elections, and the "War on Terrorism."

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 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

Winner of the International Center of Photography's Award for Writing on Photography.  Writers, filmmakers, poets, and cultural critics use photographs to analyze the modern African-American experience.

A Piece of My Heart/Pedacito de mi corazón: The Art of Carmen Lomas Garza

Paintings by a leading Chicana artist.

Pig Tails ’n Breadfruit: A Culinary Memoir

A tantalizing Caribbean memoir--part cookbook, part family history--by "one of the most talented novelists at work in the English Language today" (Norman Mailer).

Pig Tales: A Novel of Lust & Transformation

The Pink Glass Swan: Selected Feminist Essays on Art

Selected writings from America's leading feminist art critic.

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

A graphic look at how public and institutional ideas of obscenity have changed throughout history.

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

A collection of key works in the emerging field of cultural policy.

Portraits of Native Americans: Photographs from the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition

Turn-of-the-century images of Native Americans, in a postcard format.

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

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

Essays on the lives of workers, the formation of class during the Gilded Age, and the lives of African-American slaves and freedmen.

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

A "witty and poignant" novel (The Guardian, London) by Estonia's leading novelist.

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

Queer America: A People's GLBT History of the United States

Paperback: A sweeping history of modern GLBT America, from the early twentieth century through the current fight for same-sex marriage

A Queer Reader: 2500 Years of Male Homosexuality

A quotable sampler of the "pithy and profound" (New York) in gay male history.

Rabble: A People's History of War and Rebellion in Colonial North America

A bold new "bottom-up" history of American warfare, from the perspective of common people who worked, fought, bled, and died in the creation of prerevolutionary America

Race: How Blacks and Whites Think and Feel About the American Obsession

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 Race Against Death: Peter Bergson, America, and the Holocaust

The unknown story of the man who led America’s most effective campaign to rescue victims of the Holocaust, from the bestselling historian

Race to Incarcerate

An updated account of the explosion in America's prison population

Race to Incarcerate: A Graphic Retelling

The Race Track: Understanding and Challenging Structural Racism

Racism Explained to My Daughter

NOW IN PAPERBACK The prizewinning book of advice about racism from bestselling author to his daughter, introduced by BILL COSBY

Radical Acts: Collected Political Plays

Four inspiring, bold political plays that bring history alive as theater, from the Bancroft prize-winning historian, cultural critic, and public intellectual

Radical Hollywood: The Untold Story Behind America’s Favorite Movies

A controversial and fascinating rewriting of the history of cinema’s golden age

The Radical Reader: A Documentary History of the American Radical Tradition

Key documents illustrate the richness of the American radical tradition

Ravel: A Novel

Now in paperback: The international bestseller by “the master magician of the contemporary French novel” (The Washington Post), published to coincide with the hardcover release of his new novel, Lightning

Rebellion in Chiapas: An Historical Reader

An acclaimed historian of Mexico traces the roots of the current crisis in Chiapas using primary source documents.

Recipe of Memory: Five Generations of Mexican Cuisine

Nominated for two Julia Child Cookbook Awards and a James Beard Award, a nonfiction Like Water for Chocolate that explores one Mexican-American family's legacy of folklore, migration, and, of course, food.

Recodings: Art, Spectacle, Cultural Politics

Rediscovering Jacob Riis: Exposure Journalism and Photography in Turn-of-the-Century New York

A provocative new illustrated history of the famed early chronicler of New York’s immigrant poor, seen here as an opportunistic, camera-toting social reformer whose legacy lives on

Rednecks & Bluenecks: The Politics of Country Music

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

Reef

From the Booker Prize finalist, "a sensuous feast of delight, incessantly pleasurable to read...A book to be slowly savoured, page by page" (The Times, London) 

Regime Change Begins at Home

A set of playing cards to help you identify the profiteers and warmongers who have seized control of America.

Remaking History: Discussions in Contemporary Culture #4

A Village Voice Best Book, these essays explore historical imperialism in all its forms.

Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Tell About Life in the Segregated South

NOW IN PAPERBACK The sequel to Remembering Slavery, a groundbreaking collection of interviews about the segregation-era South

Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk About Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Emancipation

Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk About Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Emancipation

PAPERBACK/CDS “Powerful and intense” (Atlanta Journal-Constitution) and “a minor miracle” (Ted Koppel, Nightline), the groundbreaking book-and-audio set is available on MP3 audio CDs

Remembering the Civil Rights Movement

Republic of Outsiders: The Power of Amateurs, Dreamers, and Rebels

Rethinking Schools: An Agenda for Change

The country's leadingn education reformers propose ways to change our schools, "cutting through the jargon and addressing the real issues" (Jonathan Kozol).

The Return of the Dancing Master

The latest novel from Henning Mankell features a young policeman with cancer investigating the brutal murder of his first partner. 

The Revolution That Wasn’t: Mexico, 1910-1920

A leading historian of Mexico reflects on the Mexican Revolution one hundred years after the pivotal uprising

Revolutionaries

Back in print, groundbreaking essays from “the best known living historian in the world” (The Times, London)

Rich Media, Poor Democracy: Communication Politics in Dubious Times

The first paperback edition of a myth-breaking book on media, from one of today's most reputable and insightful media historians and critics.

The Rise and Rise of Richard B. Cheney: Unlocking the Mysteries of the Most Powerful Vice President in American History

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

Road from ar Ramadi: The Private Rebellion of Staff Sergeant Camilo Mejía

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

The Road to Tahrir Square: Egypt and the United States from the Rise of Nasser to the Fall of Mubarak

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL The story of the United States’ intimate and pivotal relationship with the Arab world’s largest nation over the course of six decades, from the eminent historian of American foreign policy

Robes of Splendor: Native North American Painted Buffalo Hides

The first U.S. publication of stunning Native American artworks from the French royal collections.

The Romantics: England in a Revolutionary Age

Now in paperback, the great historian's provocative account of the rise of Romanticism.

Room Service: Reports from Eastern Europe

A rich, literary portrait of Eastern Europe in transition that "occupies that rare place where journalism becomes literature" (Kirkus Reviews)

The Runner: A True Account of the Amazing Lies and Fantastical Adventures of the Ivy League Impostor James Hogue

A classic American story of a homeless drifter who starts a new life by making up a fake identity and gaining admission to Princeton University, based on the acclaimed New Yorker article

Running: A Novel

A beautifully crafted portrait of the legendary Czech runner Emil Zátopek, by “the master magician of the contemporary french novel” (The Washington Post )

Russia/USSR/Russia: The Drive and Drift of a Superstate

A groundbreaking examination of continuity and change in Russian history.

The Rust Belt

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

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

The Sandglass

"A layered narrative tour de force" (Publishing News) from the author of the Booker Prize finalist Reef.

A Saving Remnant: The Radical Lives of Barbara Deming and David McReynolds

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

Saving State U: Why We Must Fix Public Higher Education

How to rescue public higher education in the United States, by the nationally known economist

Say It Loud: Great Speeches on Civil Rights and African American Identity

Following the pathbreaking Say it Plain—a book and MP3 set that allows Americans to relive the oratorical highlights of the modern struggle for racial equality and civil rights

Say It Plain: A Century of Great African American Speeches

NOW IN PAPERBACK An affordable text-only edition of a century of public speeches by the nation's greatest African American orators

A Schoolmaster of the Great City: A Progressive Educator’s Pioneering Vision for Urban Schools

Classics in progressive education—a series edited by Herbert Kohl

Schwarzenegger Syndrome: Politics and Celebrity in the Age of Contempt

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”

The Second Amendment in Law and History: Historians and Constitutional Scholars on the Right to Bear Arms

A demystifying guide to the complex debates surrounding the constitutional right to bear arms

Secret Identities: The Asian American Superhero Anthology

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL: A groundbreaking graphic collection that explores Asian American culture, identity, and history through all-new superhero comics

See You in Court: How the Right Made America a Lawsuit Nation

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

The Self Beyond Itself: An Alternative History of Ethics, the New Brain Sciences, and the Myth of Free Will

The Senator and the Sharecropper: The Freedom Struggles of James O. Eastland and Fannie Lou Hamer

The epic struggle for Black equality in the 20th century, told through the deeply-intertwined life histories of the staunch segregationist and his sharecropper nemesis

Sensible Justice: Alternatives to Prison

Reasoned and practical alternatives to our current approach to incarceration.

Serving the Word: Literalism in America from the Pulpit to the Bench

NOW IN PAPERBACK the leading anthropologist’s “accessible, timely, and significant” (Kirkus Reviews) exploration of America’s search for certainty

"The Sex Side of Life": Mary Ware Dennett's Pioneering Battle for Birth Control and Sex Education

Sex, Sin, and Blasphemy: A Guide to America’s Censorship Wars

Shades of L.A.: Pictures from Ethnic Family Albums

A diverse photographic portrait of Los Angeles as seen through the city's family albums.

The Shadow Girls: A Novel

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

Shadow of the Sixties: Coming of Age After the Baby Boomers

Shadows of a Childhood: A Novel

PAPERBACK For everyone who read Suite Française and wants to know more, a beautiful reissue of Irène Némirovsky’s daughter’s searing story of her parents’ disappearance

Shakespeare's Kitchen: Stories

The much anticipated new book from the acclaimed author of Other People’s Houses and Her First American—Lore Segal’s first major work of fiction in twenty years

Shared Visions: Native American Painters and Sculptors in the Twentieth Century

Art from more than seventy Native American artists whose work draws on European, American, and Native American traditions.

Shattered: The Asian American Comics Anthology

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

Shattering the Glass: The Remarkable History of Women’s Basketball

The first major history of the most popular women’s team sport in the United States

She Would Not Be Moved: How We Tell the Story of Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott

NOW IN PAPERBACK The prizewinning educator's brilliant and timely meditation on the misleading ways in which we teach the story of Rosa Parks

Shooting Back from the Reservation: A Photographic View of Life by Native American Youth

Should We Burn Babar?: Essays on Children’s Literature and the Power of Stories

PAPERBACK A new edition of the prizewinning educator's thoughts on the politics of children's literature, including a new essay written for this volume

Side by Side: Parallel Histories of Israel-Palestine

Sidetracked: A Kurt Wallander Mystery

Gripping suspense combines with probing social commentary in this Kurt Wallander mystery.

The Skin That We Speak: Thoughts on Language and Culture in the Classroom

The author of Other People’s Children joins with other experts to examine the relationship between language and power in the classroom

The Skull Measurer's Mistake: And Other Portraits of Men and Women Who Spoke Out Against Racism

Enlightening stories of courageous eighteenth- and nineteenth- century men and women who defied the racial prejudices of their communities.

Slanting the Story: The Forces That Shape the News

A powerful exposé of the right wing's efforts to shape the news.

Slavery and Public History: The Tough Stuff of American Memory

Preeminent historians explore how the most controversial aspects of the American past are documented

Slavery in New York

A definitive account of the hitherto hidden slave past of America's first city

Slaves Without Masters: The Free Negro in the Antebellum South

A handsome new edition of an essential work by the groundbreaking historian of African American Life in the nineteenth century

Smoke and Mirrors: Violence, Television, and Other American Cultures

A probing, provocative examination of television that Rolling Stone called "dense, funny, and smart as hell."

The Sneaker Book: Anatomy of an Industry and an Icon

An entertaining and informative examination of the economic and cultural factors behind the exploding popularity of sneakers in America.

So Rich, So Poor: Why It's So Hard to End Poverty in America

The Social History of the Third Reich, 1933-1945

A balanced, through study of Germany during the Nazi years, by the celebrated author of The Nazi Question.

Social Stratification in the United States: The American Profile Poster

PAPERBACK/POSTER A much anticipated update of the classic book and poster set depicting who owns what, who makes how much, who works where, and who lives with whom

The Society and Population Health Reader: Volume I: Income Inequality and Health

The first volume in the groundbreaking and controversial two-volume reader on the connections between social structure and public health.

The Society and Population Health Reader: Volume II: A State and Community Perspective

The second volume in the groundbreaking and controversial two-volume reader on the connections between social structure and public health.

Sociology Is a Martial Art: Political Writings by Pierre Bourdieu

Paperback original: An essential collection of political essays, interviews, and lectures by the pioneering French sociologist, in the tradition of the bestselling The Chomsky-Foucault Debate

The Soul of Politics: A Practical and Prophetic Vision for Change

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

South Africa and the United States: The Declassified History

A collection of primary source materials that reveal the secret U.S. policy debates over South Africa.

Spanking the Donkey: Dispatches from the Dumb Season

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

Speaking of Empire and Resistance: Conversations with Tariq Ali

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 Spears of Twilight: Life and Death in the Amazon Jungle

"A massive classic of modern anthropology...that reads better than most fiction" (The Guardian, London). A Choice Ourstanding Academic Book.

Stayin’ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class

The Stiglitz Report: Reforming the International Monetary and Financial Systems in the Wake of the Global Crisis

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL: The comprehensive—and controversial—analysis by a blue-ribbon international commission of the causes and remedies for our world economic crisis, written by a UN committee chaired by the Nobel Prize–winning economist

Stonewall's Children

Stranger in a Strange Land: Encounters in the Disunited States

With a sharp pencil, and a sharper eye, our protagonist shades the contours of a fractured nation

Street Wars: Gangs and the Future of Violence

NOW IN PAPERBACK The renowned activist's impassioned look at gangs and youth violence in Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York

Stubborn Hope: Religion, Politics, and Revolution in Central America

An essential primer on the relationship between religion and politics in Central America.

The Studs Terkel Interviews: Film and Theater

PAPERBACK An elegant new edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winner’s “richly entertaining”(Publishers Weekly) conversations with the masters of stage and screen

The Studs Terkel Reader: My American Century

A new addition to the collection of elegant reissues of the Studs Terkel Oeuvre

Studs Terkel's Chicago

Studs Terkel's Working: A Graphic Adaptation

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

Studs Terkel’s Working: A Teaching Guide

Stupidity and Tears: Teaching and Learning in Troubled Times

A call to arms against the increasingly hostile climate of public education, hailed by Bill Ayers as “A wise and measured handbook for the struggle ahead”

Submersion Journalism: Reporting in the Radical First Person from Harper's Magazine

Fifteen sparkling works of inside-out reportage—Harper's own house brand of "submersion journalism"—an unapologetically aggressive approach to reporting in an age of lies

Subversion as Foreign Policy: The Secret Eisenhower and Dulles Debacle in Indonesia

Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism

The explosive story of racial exclusion in the North, from the American Book Award–winning author of Lies My Teacher Told Me

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

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

The Sylvia Chronicles: 30 Years of Graphic Misbehavior from Reagan to Obama

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

Talking Pictures: With the People Who Made Them

Talking to Myself: A Memoir of My Times

The autobiographical portrait of our leading oral historian.

Taxi!: Cabs and Capitalism in New York City

A front seat ride through the yellow cab industry of New York City

Teachers Have It Easy: The Big Sacrifices and Small Salaries of America’s Teachers

NOW IN PAPERBACK The bestselling call to action for improving the working lives of public school teachers—and improving our classrooms along the way

Teaching for Social Justice: A Democracy and Education Reader

A popular handbook on teaching for social justice for parents and educators.

Teaching Matters: Stories from Inside City Schools

Terra Nullius: A Journey Through No One's Land

A provocative journey through the dark history of the creation of white Australia, exposing the hidden genocide of the Aboriginal people

Terrorism and the Constitution: Sacrificing Civil Liberties in the Name of National Security

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

Texas History Textbooks (Laderman and Lebo)

Theater of War: In Which the Republic Becomes an Empire

America's mainstream dissident questions the motive and feasibility, as well as the imperial pretension, of the Bush administration's "war on terror."

This Blinding Absence of Light: A Novel

A shocking story set in Morocco's desert concentration camps, from the Prix Goncourt–winning novelist

The Thought Gang

"A cult novel for the 1990s" (The Times, London) from the Booker Prize finalist.

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

Now in paperback:The “absorbing and often provocative” (Booklist) backstory to America’s current predicament in the Middle East, with frightening relevance for the distant prospect of peace and stability in the region today

Three Men in a Room: The Inside Story of Power and Betrayal in an American Statehouse

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

Ticking Time Bombs: The New Conservative Assaults on Democracy

Tide Players: The Movers and Shakers of a Rising China

Ties That Bind: Familial Homophobia and Its Consequences

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

To Move a Mountain: Fighting the Global Economy in Appalachia

Eve Weinbaum's firsthand look at the devastation wrought by the closings of community-sustaining factories become moving stories in the age of corporate globalization

Top Heavy: The Increasing Inequality of Wealth in America and What Can Be Done About It

A revised and expanded edition of the shocking study that changed the way we think of wealth in America

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

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

The Torture Memos: Rationalizing the Unthinkable

The key Office of Legal Counsel documents used to justify torture in the “War on Terror,” with an introduction from the country’s leading constitutional scholar and award-winning author David Cole 9/11

"A Totally Alien Life-Form": Teenagers

Teens nationawide speak their minds with extraordinary frankness to the "legitimate heir to Studs Terkel" (Chicago Tribune).

Touch and Go: A Memoir

NOW IN PAPERBACK — The extaordinary, widely praised memoir—“a masterpiece about a life which itself is a sort of masterpiece” (Oliver Sacks)

Towards a New Cold War: U.S. Foreign Policy from Vietnam to Reagan

A sobering assessment of American foreign policy from the end of the Vietnam era to Ronald Reagan.

TRADE CATALOG (FALL 2013)

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

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”

A Transatlantic Love Affair: Letters to Nelson Algren

The "amazing" (Los Angeles Times) and "engrossing" (Publishers Weekly) love letters of Simone de Beauvoir to Nelson Algren.

The Traveler’s Tree

A harrowingly realistic tale of eighteenth-century life at sea.

The Trial of Donald Rumsfeld: A Prosecution by Book

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

The Tribes of America: Journalistic Discoveries of Our People and Their Cultures

PAPERBACK A reissue of a fascinating work of “superb” (Chicago Tribune) reportage on the fault lines that produced today’s red/blue divide

The Trolley

The True Cost of Conflict: Seven Recent Wars and Their Effects on Society

Truth & Lies: Stories from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa

Startling side-by-side portraits of victims and perpetrators of apartheid, by an award-winning South African photographer

Try This at Home!: A Do-It-Yourself Guide to Winning Lesbian and Gay Civil Rights

A handbook for grassroots activism from the ACLU's director of gay and lesbian legal reform efforts.

Two Billion Eyes: The Story of China Central Television

Two Faces of Liberalism

An impassioned argument for a contemporary liberalism in the new millennium.

The Ultimate Field Guide to the U.S. Economy: A Compact and Irreverent Guide to Economic Life in America

Unchecked and Unbalanced: Presidential Power in a Time of Terror

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

Uncle Swami: South Asians in America Today

Uncommon People: Resistance, Rebellion, and Jazz

An engaging and eclectic collection of essays from "the best-known living historian in the world" (The Times, London)

Under the Frog: A Black Comedy

Under the Perfect Sun: The San Diego Tourists Never See

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

Undercurrents

A mesmerizing new tour de force from the internationally acclaimed author of Pig Tales—the writer the New Yorker hailed as France's "best young novelist."

Undermining: Land and Art in the New West

Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky

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

Understanding September 11

Unequal Partners: A Primer on Globalization

An eye-opening primer on some of the less explored aspects of globalization. 

Unexpected Chicagoland

An exquisite homage to Chicago’s architecture and people, from the renowned documentary photographer and the acclaimed architectural historian

The Unfinished City: New York and the Metropolitan Idea

One of the nation’s leading historians makes the most compelling case yet for why we should care about American cities.

Unfinished Work: Building Equality and Democracy in an Era of Working Families

Leading experts reflect on the changing nature of work and family life

Universal Health Care: What the United States Can Learn from the Canadian Experience

A powerful argument for a new health-care system.

Universities and Empire: Money and Politics in the Social Sciences During the Cold War

A shocking examination of the politics of intellectual life during the Cold War.

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

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 Unmaking of the American Working Class

A searingly candid account of work and class in America from the author of How to Tell When You’re Tired

Unmarketable: Brandalism, Copyfighting, Mocketing, and the Erosion of Integrity

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

The Unreal America: Architecture and Illusion

An "insightful primer on contemporary architecture" (Artnews) by the Pulizer Prize-winning critic.

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Up South: Stories, Studies, and Letters of This Century's African American Migrations

Up to Our Eyeballs: How Shady Lenders and Failed Economic Policies Are Drowning Americans in Debt

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

The Use of Explosive Ideas in Education: Culture, Class, and Evolution

Using three "explosive ideas" of the past century--culture, class, and evolution, Brameld brings both philosophy and the liberal arts to bear upon the myriad activities of classrooms, playgrounds, and administrative offices.

Utopistics: Or, Historical Choices of the Twenty-first Century

The founder of world-systems analysis explores what we can expect in the twenty-first century.

The Vampire State: And Other Myths and Fallacies About the U.S. Economy

An engaging look at how popular metaphors distort our economic understanding.

The Vatican to Vegas: A History of Special Effects

Ven a mi casa: una busqueda de tesoro multicultural

The View from the Oak: The Private Worlds of Other Creatures

Back in print, the classic children's science book, winner of the National Book Award for children's literature.

Viral Spiral: How the Commoners Built a Digital Republic of Their Own

A stunning narrative history of the emergence of electronic "free culture", from open-source software and Creative Commons licenses to remixes and web 2.0—in the tradition of Lawrence Lessig's Free Culture

Vision and Communism: Viktor Koretsky and Dissident Public Visual Culture

Vision and Visuality: Discussions in Contemporary Culture #2

Visionaries and Outcasts: The NEA, Congress, and the Place of the Visual Artist in America

A former New York Times art critic's argument for a radical new perspective on government funding for visual artists.

Visual Display: Culture Beyond Appearances: Discussions in Contemporary Culture #10

A "highly recommended" (Library Journal) contribution to the interdisciplinary debate about how cultural differences are implicit within visual forms.

The Voice of Memory: Interviews, 1961–1987

The Holocaust survivor, writer, and scientist Primo Levi, in his own words.

WAC Stats: The Facts About Women

An invaluable handbook of statistics about the realities of women's lives today.

Wage Theft in America: Why Millions of Working Americans Are Not Getting Paid—And What We Can Do About It

PAPERBACK A new edition of the groundbreaking book that gave a name to wage theft, the insidious way employers cheat their workers, from the nationally recognized social justice organizer 

Waiting to Land: A (Mostly) Political Memoir, 1985-2008

From the celebrated activist, radical thinker, and historian, a fascinating political history of the mid-1980s to the present—part personal memoir, part social analysis

Wal-Mart: The Face of Twenty-First-Century Capitalism

An indispensable introduction to the company that will define the twenty-first century economy

The War: A Memoir

An elegant new paperback edition of one of Marguerite Duras’s most important books

The War at Home: The Domestic Costs of Bush’s Militarism

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

War in Heaven: The Arms Race in Outer Space

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

War Is Beautiful: An American Ambulance Driver in the Spanish Civil War

The newly discovered journal of an award-winning poet's experience on the front lines as a member of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade—All Quiet on the Western Front for the Spanish Civil War

War of the Century: When Hitler Fought Stalin

The powerful follow-up to The Nazis incorporates previously unpublished material to provide new insight into Hitler's invasion of Russia.

The War on the Poor: A Defense Manual

An incisive look at poverty in this country.

War Without End: The View from Abroad

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

Wartime Writings: 1943–1949

NOW IN PAPERBACK From one of France’s most celebrated literary figures, the captivating World War II notebooks with the remarkable stories behind her international bestsellers

The Water Atlas: A Unique Visual Analysis of the World's Most Critical Resource

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL A comprehensive charting of the global water industry

The Way Things Aren’t: Rush Limbaugh’s Reign of Error

A paperback handbook debunking the misinformation doled out by Rush Limbaugh on his radio show, on his television show, and in his books.

Ways of Forgetting, Ways of Remembering: Japan in the Modern World

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

We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness

NOW IN PAPERBACK The New York Times bestselling book of spiritual ruminations with a progressive political edge from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author

We the Media: A Citizens' Guide to Fighting for Media Democracy

A handy, well-orgnized, factfilled look at the media in America.

Welfare Critique (Ehrenreich & Piven)

Were You Born on the Wrong Continent?: How the European Model Can Help You Get a Life

NOW IN PAPERBACK A charming and illuminating comparison of the United States and Europe, from the writer Rick Perlstein calls "America's Greatest Social Critic"

What Happened in Ohio?: A Documentary Record of Theft and Fraud in the 2004 Election

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

"What Happened to You?": Writing by Disabled Women

Hard-hitting and deeply moving stories, poems, and essays by more than thirty disabled women, winner of the MIND/Allen Lane Book of the Year Award.

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

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

What the (Active Verb) Is Wrong with the Right?: A Fill-in-the-Blanks Game for the Rest of Us

Paperback original: The ultimate party game for our times—fill in the blanks as you peer into the loony, laughable world of the Right

What the Night Tells the Day: A Novel

A "lyrical and unforgettable" (Washington Post Book World) memoir of growing up gay in Perón's Argentina.

What’s Love Got to Do with It?: A Critical Look at American Charity

NOW IN PAPERBACK A groundbreaking critique of American charity which Barbara Ehrenreich says “demolishes the conventional wisdom that private philanthropy is innately superior to public welfare measures”

When the Kissing Had To Stop: Cult Studs, Khmer Newts, Langley Spooks, Techno-Geeks, Video Drones, Author Gods, Serial Killers, Vampire Media, Alien Sperm Suckers, Satanic Therapists, and Those of Us Who Hold a Left-Wing Grudge in the Post-Toasties New World Hip-Hop

Which Side Are You On?: Trying to Be for Labor When It’s Flat on Its Back

The comic, poignant, one-of-a-kind book that “reads like an enthralling novel” (Studs Terkel)

White: The Biography of Walter White, Mr. NAACP

A publishing landmark, the first biography of the man who brought the NAACP to national prominence

White House E-Mail: The Secret Computer Message the Reagan/Bush White House Tried to Destory

Internal email messages from the Reagan/Bush White House, never before available to the public.

The White House Tapes: Eavesdropping on the President

A book and CD set, the first collection that permits Americans to listen directly to their presidents as they speak not in the studied phrases of speeches but in the real heat of the moment.  Book based on transcripts of the conversations.

The White Lioness: A Kurt Wallander Mystery

The second novel from the award-winning Kurt Wallander Series, focusing on an international plot to assassinate Nelson Mandela.

White News: The Untold Story of Racism in American Media and the Journalists Who Fought It

An alternative history of the media in America that puts race at the center of the story, from two award-winning journalists

Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?: The Mystery Behind the Agatha Christie Mystery

NOW IN PAPERBACK A “charming piece of literary detective work” (Booklist) that reexamines Agatha Christie’s classic whodunit

Who's Afraid of Feminism?: Seeing through the Backlash

Leading feminist thinkers from around the world confront the backlash against women's rights.

Who's Afraid of Frances Fox Piven?: The Essential Writings of the Professor Glenn Beck Loves to Hate

Whose Church?: A Concise Guide to Progressive Catholicism

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

Whose Gospel?: A Concise Guide to Progressive Protestantism

A passionate call to justice from the figure Newsweek calls “one of the twelve most effective preachers in the English-speaking world”

Whose Qur'an?: A Concise Guide to Progressive Islam

A leading Muslim scholar and activist reclaims islam as a faith committed to progressive values and the movement for justice—the newest addition to the new press’s groundbreaking Whose Religion? Series

Whose Torah?: A Concise Guide to Progressive Judaism

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 Trade Organization?: A Comprehensive Guide to the WTO

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

Why School?: Reclaiming Education for All of Us

A powerful and timely exploration of this country’s public education goals, and how they are put into practice, by the award-winning author and educator

Wide Awake: A Novel

Will the Circle Be Unbroken?: Reflections on Death, Rebirth, and Hunger for a Faith

A major new oral history from the Pulitzer Prize–winner, dealing with the universal experience of death

Will the Last Reporter Please Turn Out the Lights: The Collapse of Journalism and What Can Be Done to Fix It

Paperback original: The first-ever road map to understanding the debates swirling around the sudden collapse of the news media

With God on Their Side: George W. Bush and the Christian Right

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

With Liberty and Justice for Some: A Critique of the Conservative Supreme Court

A fascinating analysis of the changes brought about by the Reagan-Bush courts.

Witness Against the Beast: William Blake and the Moral Law

A brilliant interdisciplinary re-examination of Blake's cultural milieu and intellectual background by the renowned historian and critic.

Women in the 19th Century: Categories and Contradictions

A stunning full-color portfolio of classic paintings of nineteenth-century women.

Women Pay More: And How To Put a Stop to It

A key resource in women's fight for equity.

Wonderful Women by the Sea

An award-winning evocation of the 1960s as seen through the eyes of two Swedish women caught between Tupperwar parties and the women's movement.

Words of Fire: An Anthology of African American Feminist Thought

The Work of Andy Warhol: Discussions in Contemporary Culture #3

Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do

In celebration of his 2003 Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Book Critics Circle, one of three of Studs Terkel’s classics in handsome new paperback editions

Working-Class New York: Life and Labor Since World War II

NOW IN PAPERBACK a “lucid, detailed, and imaginative analysis” (The Nation) of the model city that working-class New Yorkers created after World War II—and its tragic demise

The World According to Monsanto: Pollution, Corruption, and the Control of Our Food Supply

NOW IN PAPERBACK: An explosive exposé of the disturbing practices of the world's most influential agricultural biotechnology corporation, by an award-winning journalist

The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker

The World of Mexican Migrants: The Rock and the Hard Place

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

The World Out There: Becoming Part of the Lesbian and Gay Community

An information-packed guide for gay and lesbian young people in the 1990s.

World War II: The Unseen Visual History

An eye-opening global history of World War II in the form of a lavishly illustrated, full-color historical atlas, including previously unpublished rare photographs

The World Will Follow Joy: Turning Madness into Flowers (New Poems)

A dazzling collection of new poems from the Pulitzer Prize winner

The WPA Guide to New York City

The Wrong Guys: Murder, False Confessions, and the Norfolk Four

A compulsively readable true-crime tale, with a damning argument about the relationship between the death penalty and false confessions, based on an innocence project case

Wrong Turn: America's Deadly Embrace of Counterinsurgency

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Yellow Peril: Understanding Fears of "the East" and What We Can Do About It

Coming in Fall 2012

You Have No Rights: Stories of America in an Age of Repression

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

Zero Tolerance: Resisting the Drive for Punishment in Our Schools

A clear-eyed collection that takes aim at the replacement of teaching with punishment in America’s schools                              

Zig Zag: The Politics of Culture and Vice Versa

Witty and engaging essays from the leading German social critic.

“I Won’t Learn from You”: And Other Thoughts on Creative Maladjustment