K-12

Not Written in Stone

Learning and Unlearning American History Through 200 Years of Textbooks

Kyle Ward

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

Protest Nation

Words That Inspired a Century of American Radicalism

Edited by Timothy Patrick McCarthy and John McMillian

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL:  From Eugene Debs to Paul Robeson, Angela Davis, and Harvey Milk—a compendium of words that spurred American Radical thought and action, from the early twentieth century to the present

The Use of Explosive Ideas in Education

Culture, Class, and Evolution

Theodore Brameld

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.

Fuller's Earth

A Day with Buckminster Fuller and the Kids

Richard J. Brenneman

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 Herb Kohl Reader

Awakening the Heart of Teaching

Herbert Kohl

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

Welcome to the Aquarium

A Year in the Lives of Children

Julie Diamond

Told through the observant and wise eyes of a veteran kindergarten teacher, a lyrical look at the hidden structures of life in an urban elementary school classroom

P.S.

Further Thoughts from a Lifetime of Listening

Studs Terkel

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL — The Pulitzer prize-winning oral historian and nonagenarian makes a selection of his favorite unpublished writings, broadcasts, and interviews

Coming of Age in the 21st Century

Growing Up in America Today

Edited by Mary Frosch

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

City Kids, City Schools

More Reports from the Front Row

Edited by William Ayers, Gloria Ladson-Billings, Gregory Michie, and Pedro A. Noguera

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

Diary of a Harlem Schoolteacher

Jim Haskins

Being with Children

A High-Spirited Personal Account of Teaching Writing, Theater, and Videotape

Phillip Lopate

The Case for Make Believe

Saving Play in a Commercialized World

Susan Linn

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

Fires in the Middle School Bathroom

Advice for Teachers from Middle Schoolers

Kathleen Cushman, Laura Rogers

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

Coming of Age Around the World

A Multicultural Anthology

Edited by Faith Adiele and Mary Frosch

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

All Alone in the World

Children of the Incarcerated

Nell Bernstein

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

Free at Last

A Documentary History of Slavery, Freedom, and the Civil War

Edited by Ira Berlin, Barbara J. Fields, Steven F. Miller, Joseph P. Reidy, and Leslie S. Rowland

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

Beyond the Bake Sale

The Essential Guide to Family-School Partnerships

Anne T. Henderson, Karen L. Mapp, Vivian R. Johnson, Don Davies

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

The New Press Education Reader

Leading Educators Speak Out

Edited by Ellen Gordon Reeves

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

History in the Making

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

Kyle Ward

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

Field Guide to the U.S. Economy

A Compact and Irreverent Guide to Economic Life in America

Jonathan Teller-Elsberg, James Heintz, Nancy Folbre

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

The Color of Wealth

The Story Behind the U.S. Racial Wealth Divide

Meizhu Lui, Bárbara Robles, Betsy Leondar-Wright, Rose Brewer, Rebecca Adamson

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

The Coffee Book

Anatomy of an Industry from Crop to the Last Drop

Nina Luttinger, Gregory Dicum

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

Prophets of Protest

Reconsidering the History of American Abolitionism

Edited by Timothy Patrick McCarthy and John Stauffer

The first collection of original contributions on American abolitionism to appear in a generation

10 Excellent Reasons Not to Join the Military

Edited by Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg

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

The New Americans

Seven Families Journey to Another Country

Rubén Martínez

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

A People's History of the Civil War

Struggles for the Meaning of Freedom

David Williams

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

Chinese America

The Untold Story of America's Oldest New Community

Peter Kwong, Dušanka Mišcevic

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

Sundown Towns

A Hidden Dimension of American Racism

James W. Loewen

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

She Would Not Be Moved

How We Tell the Story of Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott

Herbert Kohl

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

And They All Sang

Adventures of an Eclectic Disc Jockey

Studs Terkel

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

Annapolis Autumn

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

Bruce Fleming

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

Shattering the Glass

The Remarkable History of Women’s Basketball

Pamela Grundy, Susan Shackelford

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

Field Guide to the Global Economy

Sarah Anderson, John Cavanagh, Thea Lee

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

Teachers Have It Easy

The Big Sacrifices and Small Salaries of America’s Teachers

Daniel Moulthrop, Nínive Calegari, Dave Eggers

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

Say It Plain

A Century of Great African American Speeches

Edited by Catherine Ellis and Stephen Drury Smith

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

Fighting Words

An Illustrated History of Newspaper Accounts of the Civil War

Andrew S. Coopersmith

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

Founding Myths

Stories That Hide Our Patriotic Past

Ray Raphael

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

Oil

A Concise Guide to the Most Important Product on Earth

Matthew Yeomans

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

History Lessons

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

Dana Lindaman, Kyle Ward

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

The Water Atlas

A Unique Visual Analysis of the World's Most Critical Resource

Robin Clarke, Jannet King

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL A comprehensive charting of the global water industry

Brown v. Board

The Landmark Oral Argument Before the Supreme Court

Edited by Leon Friedman

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)

Stupidity and Tears

Teaching and Learning in Troubled Times

Herbert Kohl

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”

Hope Dies Last

Keeping the Faith in Troubled Times

Studs Terkel

The latest oral history from the unrivaled master of the genre

The White House Tapes

Eavesdropping on the President

Edited by John Prados

Global Inc.

An Atlas of the Multinational Corporation

Medard Gabel, Henry Bruner

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

Final Test

The Battle for Adequacy in America’s Schools

Peter Schrag

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

The Pinochet File

A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability

Peter Kornbluh

NOW IN PAPERBACK Updated with newly declassified documents, a Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2003

A People’s History of the Vietnam War

Jonathan Neale

NOW IN PAPERBACK The war in Indochina as seen by those who fought on both sides

The Radical Reader

A Documentary History of the American Radical Tradition

Edited by Timothy Patrick McCarthy and John McMillian

Key documents illustrate the richness of the American radical tradition

The Assassination of Julius Caesar

A People’s History of Ancient Rome

Michael Parenti

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

A People’s History of the United States

Abridged Teaching Edition

Howard Zinn

A People’s History of the United States

Volume II: The Civil War to the Present

Howard Zinn

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 I: American Beginnings to Reconstruction

Howard Zinn

An abridged classroom edition of Howard Zinn's bestselling history of the United States, with teaching materials to accompany each chapter            

The Skin That We Speak

Thoughts on Language and Culture in the Classroom

Edited by Lisa Delpit and Joanne Kilgour Dowdy

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

Fires in the Bathroom

Advice for Teachers from High School Students

Kathleen Cushman

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

The First American Revolution

Before Lexington and Concord

Ray Raphael

A bold new interpretation of America’s founding moment

Math and Science Across Cultures

Activities and Investigations from the Exploratorium

Maurice Bazin, Modesto Tamez, The Exploratorium Teacher Institute

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

Remembering Jim Crow

African Americans Tell About Life in the Segregated South

Edited by William H. Chafe, Raymond Gavins, and Robert Korstad

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

Giants of Jazz

Studs Terkel

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

Islam Explained

Tahar Ben Jelloun

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

Nothing to Hide

Mental Illness in the Family

Jean J. Beard, Peggy Gillespie

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

Growing Up Poor

A Literary Anthology

Edited by Robert Coles and Randy Testa

Help Wanted

Tales from the First Job Front

Sydney Lewis

Justice Talking: Censoring the Web

Leading Advocates Debate Today’s Most Controversial Issues

Kathryn Kolbert, Zak Mettger

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

Kathryn Kolbert, Zak Mettger

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

Zero Tolerance

Resisting the Drive for Punishment in Our Schools

Edited by William Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, and Rick Ayers

A clear-eyed collection that takes aim at the replacement of teaching with punishment in America’s schools                              

Will the Circle Be Unbroken?

Reflections on Death, Rebirth, and Hunger for a Faith

Studs Terkel

A major new oral history from the Pulitzer Prize–winner, dealing with the universal experience of death

America by the Numbers

A Field Guide to the U.S. Population

William H. Frey

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

The Biodiversity Crisis

Losing What Counts

Edited by Michael J. Novacek

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

Cosmic Horizons

Astronomy at the Cutting Edge

Edited by Steven Soter and Neil deGrasse Tyson

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

A People’s History of the American Revolution

How Common People Shaped the Fight for Independence

Ray Raphael

The best single-volume history of the Revolution I have read.
—Howard Zinn

Chinatown, N.Y.

Labor and Politics, 1930–1950

Peter Kwong

Hard Times

An Oral History of the Great Depression

Studs Terkel

Elegant new paperback editions of two of Studs Terkel’s classic oral histories

The Discipline of Hope

Learning from a Lifetime of Teaching

Herbert Kohl

The View from the Oak

The Private Worlds of Other Creatures

Herbert Kohl, Judith Kohl

Economic Apartheid in America

A Primer on Economic Inequality and Insecurity

Chuck Collins, Felice Yeskel

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

Life Isn’t All Ha Ha Hee Hee

Meera Syal

One Hundred Jobs

A Panorama of Work in the American City

Ron Howell

The Kissinger Transcripts

The Top-Secret Talks with Beijing and Moscow

William Burr

42 Up

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

Edited by Bennett L. Singer

Lies Across America

What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong

James W. Loewen

CityWorks

Exploring Your Community: A workbook

Adria Steinberg, David Stephen

Epidemic!

The World of Infectious Disease

Edited by Rob DeSalle

                                                                             

The Studs Terkel Interviews

Film and Theater

Studs Terkel

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

Racism Explained to My Daughter

Tahar Ben Jelloun

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

Shadows of a Childhood

A Novel

Elisabeth Gille

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

Anita and Me

Meera Syal

The Nazis

A Warning from History

Laurence Rees

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

Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962

A National Security Archive Documents Reader

Edited by Laurence Chang and Peter Kornbluh

Remembering Slavery

African Americans Talk About Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Emancipation

Edited by Ira Berlin, Marc Favreau, and Steven F. Miller

Bay of Pigs Declassified

The Secret CIA Report on the Invasion of Cuba

Edited by Peter Kornbluh

Made in America

Immigrant Students in Our Public Schools

Laurie Olsen

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

The Studs Terkel Reader

My American Century

Studs Terkel

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

Teaching for Social Justice

A Democracy and Education Reader

Edited by William Ayers, Jean Ann Hunt, and Therese Quinn

                                     

Families and Freedom

A Documentary History of African-American Kinship in the Civil War Era

Edited by Ira Berlin and Leslie S. Rowland

The Sneaker Book

Anatomy of an Industry and an Icon

Tom Vanderbilt

Black Heritage Sites

The North, Volume 1

Nancy C. Curtis

Black Heritage Sites

The South, Volume 2

Nancy C. Curtis

Black Teachers on Teaching

Michele Foster

Black Judges on Justice

Pespective from the Bench

Linn Washington

The New Press Guide to Multicultural Resources for Young Readers

Edited by Daphne Muse

Creole Folktales

Patrick Chamoiseau

East to America

Korean American Life Stories

Elaine H. Kim, Eui-Young Yu

A Totally Alien Life-Form"

Teenagers

Sydney Lewis

Like a Hurricane

The Indian Movement from Alcatraz to Wounded Knee

Paul Chaat Smith, Robert Allen Warrior

Ellis Island and the Peopling of America

The Official Guide

Virginia Yans-McLaughlin

“The Good War"

An Oral History of World War II

Studs Terkel

  

Working

People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do

Studs Terkel

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

Asian Art Portfolio

Masterpieces from the Asia Society

Asia Society

The Native American Look Book

Art and Activities for Kids from The Brooklyn Museum

The Brooklyn Museum

The World Out There

Becoming Part of the Lesbian and Gay Community

Michael Thomas Ford

Should We Burn Babar?

Essays on Children’s Literature and the Power of Stories

Herbert Kohl

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

The Art of Ancient Egypt

Masterpieces from the Brooklyn Museum

The Brooklyn Museum

What Happened to You?"

Writing by Disabled Women

Edited by Lois Keith

Freedom's Unfinished Revolution

An Inquiry into the Civil War and Reconstruction

Edited by American Social History Project

City Kids, City Teachers

Reports from the Front Row

Edited by William Ayers and Patricia Ford

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

Dear Bruno

Alice Trillin

China Pop

How Soap Operas, Tabloids, and Bestsellers Are Transforming a Culture

Jianying Zha

Other People’s Children

Cultural Conflict in the Classroom

Lisa Delpit

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

White House E-Mail

The Secret Computer Message the Reagan/Bush White House Tried to Destory

Edited by Tom Blanton

A Queer Reader

2500 Years of Male Homosexuality

Edited by Patrick Higgins

Black Fire

The Making of an American Revolutionary

Nelson Peery

A People’s History of the United States

The Wall Charts

Howard Zinn, George Kirschner

PAPERBACK/POSTERS Zinn’s classic work in its most innovative format, the long out-of-print myth-busting posters

Robes of Splendor

Native North American Painted Buffalo Hides

George P. Horse Capture, Anne Vitart, Michael Waldberger

The WPA Guide to New York City

Federal Writers Project

Talking to Myself

A Memoir of My Times

Studs Terkel

“I Won’t Learn from You”

And Other Thoughts on Creative Maladjustment

Herbert Kohl

Art of the American Indian Frontier

A Portfolio

David W. Penney, Detroit Institute of Arts

Coming of Age in America

A Multicultural Anthology

Edited by Mary Frosch

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

Mexican Lives

Judith Adler Hellman

Rethinking Schools

An Agenda for Change

Edited by David Levine, Robert Lowe, Robert Peterson, and Rita Tenorio

Lies My Teacher Told Me

Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

James W. Loewen

A tenth anniversary commemorative hardcover edition of James W. Loewen’s classic retelling of American history

Shooting Back from the Reservation

A Photographic View of Life by Native American Youth

Jim Hubbard

Her First American

A Novel

Lore Segal

 

Portraits of Native Americans

Photographs from the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition

Charles H. Carpenter

Growing Up Gay/Growing Up Lesbian

A Literary Anthology

Edited by Bennett L. Singer

All About You

An Adventure of Self-Discovery

Aylette Jenness

A Piece of My Heart/Pedacito de mi corazón

The Art of Carmen Lomas Garza

Carmen Lomas Garza

South Africa and the United States

The Declassified History

Edited by Kenneth Mokoena

Going Public

Schooling for a Diverse Democracy

Judith Renyi

African Art Portfolio

An Illustrated Introduction: Masterpieces from the Eleventh to the Twentieth Centuries

Carol Thompson

Japan at War

An Oral History

Haruko Taya Cook, Theodore F. Cook

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

A City Year

On the Streets and in the neighborhoods with Twelve Young Community Service Volunteers

Suzanne Goldsmith

Ven a mi casa

una busqueda de tesoro multicultural

Aylette Jenness

Crossing the Tracks

How “Untracking” Can Save America's Schools

Anne Wheelock

Division Street

America

Studs Terkel

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

Asian Americans

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

Joann Faung Jean Lee

Lies My Teacher Told Me About Christopher Columbus

What Your History Books Got Wrong

James W. Loewen

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

Social Stratification in the United States

The American Profile Poster

Stephen J. Rose

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

Race

How Blacks and Whites Think and Feel About the American Obsession

Studs Terkel

The kind of book that happens along once in a long while.
—The New York Times

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