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A Plague of Prisons

The Epidemiology of Mass Incarceration in America

Ernest Drucker

A paradigm-shifting look at our criminal justice system that sees prisons as the problem, not the solution

Were You Born on the Wrong Continent?

How the European Model Can Help You Get a Life

Thomas Geoghegan

The renowned labor lawyer and acclaimed author poses the question of the moment: where are we better off—America or Europe (And why is Germany outcompeting us)

The World According to Monsanto

Pollution, Corruption, and the Control of Our Food Supply

Marie-Monique Robin

Winner of the Rachel Carson prize, an explosive exposé of the disturbing practices of the world’s most influential multinational agricultural corporation

Grand Illusion

The Myth of Voter Choice in a Two-Party Tyranny

Theresa Amato

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

Kill Khalid

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

Paul McGeough

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

Keeping Down the Black Vote

Race and the Demobilization of American Voters

Frances Fox Piven, Lorraine C. Minnite, Margaret Groarke

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

Viral Spiral

How the Commoners Built a Digital Republic of Their Own

David Bollier

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

Wage Theft in America

Why Millions of Working Americans Are Not Getting Paid—And What We Can Do About It

Kim Bobo

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL The shocking, insidious way employers cheat their workers, with a blueprint for changing policy, from the nationally recognized social justice organizer

The Wrong Guys

Murder, False Confessions, and the Norfolk Four

Tom Wells, Richard A. Leo

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

Evangelical Does Not Equal Republican . . . Or Democrat

Lisa Sharon Harper

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

Catholic Does Not Equal the Vatican

A Vision for Progressive Catholicism

Rosemary Radford Ruether

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

The Trial of Donald Rumsfeld

A Prosecution by Book

Michael Ratner

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

10 Excellent Reasons for National Health Care

Edited by Mary O’Brien and Martha Livingston

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

Up to Our Eyeballs

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

José García, James Lardner, Cindy Zeldin

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

Blue Covenant

The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water

Maude Barlow

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

Jane Fonda's Words of Politics and Passion

Mary Hershberger

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

Ex Mex

From Migrants to Immigrants

Jorge G. Castañeda

NOW IN PAPERBACK A “timely consideration” (Publishers Weekly) of the crucial, controversial, and complex issues surrounding Mexican immigration to the United States, by Mexico’s former foreign minister

All Things Being Equal

Instigating Opportunity in an Inequitable Time

Edited by Brian D. Smedley and Alan Jenkins

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

Unmarketable

Brandalism, Copyfighting, Mocketing, and the Erosion of Integrity

Anne Elizabeth Moore

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

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"

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

You Have No Rights

Stories of America in an Age of Repression

Matthew Rothschild

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL Chilling stories of ordinary Americans whose everyday liberties have been violated since September 11

Evil Paradises

Dreamworlds of Neoliberalism

Edited by Mike Davis and Daniel Bertrand Monk

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

Challenging China

Struggle and Hope in an Era of Change

Edited by Sharon Hom and Stacy Mosher

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

God Needs No Passport

Immigrants and the Changing American Religious Landscape

Peggy Levitt

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

Road from ar Ramadi

The Private Rebellion of Staff Sergeant Camilo Mejía

Camilo Mejía

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

The Big Eddy Club

David Rose

Race, injustice, and serial murder in the deep south—Midnight In the Garden of Good and Evil with an investigative edge

From Welfare State to Real Estate

Regime Change in New York City, 1974 to the Present

Kim Moody

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

Ending Poverty in America

How to Restore the American Dream

Edited by John Edwards, Marion Crain, and Arne L. Kalleberg

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

Iraq and the Lessons of Vietnam

Or, How Not to Learn from the Past

Edited by Lloyd C. Gardner and Marilyn B. Young

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

Unchecked and Unbalanced

Presidential Power in a Time of Terror

Frederick A.O. Schwarz Jr., Aziz Z. Huq

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

War in Heaven

The Arms Race in Outer Space

Helen Caldicott, Craig Eisendrath

A revelatory look at the U.S. government's plan to put weapons in outer space, by two bestselling experts

Iran

A People Interrupted

Hamid Dabashi

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

Dream

Re-imagining Progressive Politics in an Age of Fantasy

Stephen Duncombe

A twenty-first-century manifesto for the left—how we can draw upon popular fantasies to create an alternative politics through imagination and spectacle

Latin America After Neoliberalism

Turning the Tide in the 21st Century?

Edited by Eric Hershberg and Fred Rosen

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

Digital Destiny

New Media and the Future of Democracy

Jeff Chester

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

The End of the Line

How Overfishing Is Changing the World and What We Eat

Charles Clover

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

The Genius of Impeachment

The Founders' Cure for Royalism

John Nichols

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

What Happened in Ohio?

A Documentary Record of Theft and Fraud in the 2004 Election

Robert J. Fitrakis, Steven Rosenfeld, Harvey Wasserman

An array of primary sources documenting the dishonesty and disenfranchisement that tipped the scales for George W. Bush in 2004

Gun Show Nation

Gun Culture and American Democracy

Joan Burbick

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

The Body Hunters

Testing New Drugs on the World's Poorest Patients

Sonia Shah

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

Nuclear Power Is Not the Answer

Helen Caldicott

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

Three Men in a Room

The Inside Story of Power and Betrayal in an American Statehouse

Seymour P. Lachman, Robert Polner

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

Enemy Combatant

My Imprisonment at Guantánamo, Bagram, and Kandahar

Moazzam Begg

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

Pretensions to Empire

Notes on the Criminal Folly of the Bush Administration

Lewis Lapham

NOW IN PAPERBACK The distinguished essayist’s incisive critique of the Bush regime—a must-have book for political junkies and Lewis Lapham fans

Literature from the "Axis of Evil"

Writing from Iran, Iraq, North Korea, and Other Enemy Nations

Edited by Words Without Borders

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

After the Storm

Black Intellectuals Explore the Meaning of Hurricane Katrina

Edited by David Dante Troutt

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

The Soul of Politics

A Practical and Prophetic Vision for Change

Jim Wallis

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

Conned

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

Sasha Abramsky

The criminal disenfranchisement that affects millions of American citizens

Iraq

The Logic of Withdrawal

Anthony Arnove

A forceful argument for the immediate withdrawal of troops from Iraq

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

Lessons of Empire

Imperial Histories and American Power

Edited by Craig Calhoun, Frederick Cooper, and Kevin W. Moore

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

Censoring Culture

Contemporary Threats to Free Expression

Edited by Robert Atkins and Svetlana Mintcheva

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

Inequality Matters

The Growing Economic Divide in America and Its Poisonous Consequences

Edited by James Lardner and David A. Smith

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

I Die, But My Memory Lives On

The World AIDS Crisis and the Memory Book Project

Henning Mankell

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

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

Against the Wall

Israel’s Barrier to Peace

Edited by Michael Sorkin

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

Tragedy and Farce

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

John Nichols, Robert W. McChesney

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”

Torture

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

Edited by Kenneth Roth and Minky Worden

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

Gone Tomorrow

The Hidden Life of Garbage

Heather Rogers

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

The Monster at Our Door

The Global Threat of Avian Flu

Mike Davis

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

Mr. Galloway Goes to Washington

The Brit Who Set Congress Straight About Iraq

George Galloway

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

Enemy Aliens

Double Standards and Constitutional Freedoms in the War on Terrorism

David Cole

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

Priceless

On Knowing the Price of Everything and the Value of Nothing

Frank Ackerman, Lisa Heinzerling

A timely and much needed corrective to the current infatuation with cost benefit analysis and the derelict logic used to defend it

Confessions of an Argentine Dirty Warrior

A Firsthand Account of Atrocity

Horacio Verbitsky

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”

Unfinished Work

Building Equality and Democracy in an Era of Working Families

Edited by Jody Heymann and Christopher Beem

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

Good Courts

The Case for Problem-Solving Justice

Greg Berman, John Feinblatt

How innovative judges and attorneys are transforming American courts

In Time of War

Hitler's Terrorist Attack on America

Pierce O'Donnell

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

Schwarzenegger Syndrome

Politics and Celebrity in the Age of Contempt

Gary Indiana

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”

Next Year in Jerusalem

Everyday Life in a Divided Land

Daphna Golan-Agnon

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

Spanking the Donkey

Dispatches from the Dumb Season

Matt Taibbi

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

War Without End

The View from Abroad

Bruno Tertrais

A sobering meditation on the consequences of America’s engagement in Iraq, from one of Europe’s keenest observers and strategists on international affairs

Speaking of Empire and Resistance

Conversations with Tariq Ali

Tariq Ali, David Barsamian

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

Husband of a Fanatic

A Personal Journey Through India, Pakistan, Love, and Hate

Amitava Kumar

A lyrical journey into the heart of hatred

The New American Empire

A 21st Century Teach-In on U.S. Foreign Policy

Edited by Lloyd C. Gardner and Marilyn B. Young

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

Diet for a Dead Planet

Big Business and the Coming Food Crisis

Christopher D. Cook

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

The Freedom

Shadows and Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq

Christian Parenti

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

Guantánamo

The War on Human Rights

David Rose

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

America’s Military Today

Challenges for the Armed Forces in a Time of War

Tod Ensign

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

Other People’s Money

The Corporate Mugging of America

Nomi Prins

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

With God on Their Side

George W. Bush and the Christian Right

Esther Kaplan

NOW IN PAPERBACK The book Amy Goodman hailed as "classic muckraking at its best"

The War at Home

The Domestic Costs of Bush’s Militarism

Frances Fox Piven

NOW IN PAPERBACK A look at the hidden cost of the Iraq war by the preeminent social scientist

The Rise and Rise of Richard B. Cheney

Unlocking the Mysteries of the Most Powerful Vice President in American History

John Nichols

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

The Maze of Fear

Security and Migration After 9/11

Edited by John Tirman

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

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

Citizen You!

Helping Your Government Help Itself

Mike Loew, Joe Garden, Randy Ostrow

Street Wars

Gangs and the Future of Violence

Tom Hayden

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

Inventing the Axis of Evil

The Truth About North Korea, Iran, and Syria

Bruce Cumings, Ervand Abrahamian, Moshe Ma’oz

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

Low Pay, High Profile

The Global Push for Fair Labor

Andrew Ross

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

Hoodwinked

The Documents That Reveal How Bush Sold Us a War

John Prados

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

Moyers on America

A Journalist and His Times

Bill Moyers

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

Consuming Kids

The Hostile Takeover of Childhood

Susan Linn

The Other Israel

Voices of Refusal and Dissent

Edited by Roane Carey and Jonathan Shainin

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

Manifesto for a New World Order

George Monbiot

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

Whose Trade Organization?

A Comprehensive Guide to the WTO

Lori Wallach, Patrick Woodall

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL A meticulous chronicle of how the WTO has eroded democracy around the world

Lula and the Workers Party in Brazil

Sue Branford, Bernardo Kucinski

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

To Move a Mountain

Fighting the Global Economy in Appalachia

Eve S. Weinbaum

Firing Back

Against the Tyranny of the Market 2

Pierre Bourdieu

30 Satires

Lewis Lapham

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

Theater of War

In Which the Republic Becomes an Empire

Lewis Lapham

North Korea

Another Country

Bruce Cumings

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

Law in a Lawless Land

Diary of a Limpieza in Colombia

Michael Taussig

Dead Cities

And Other Tales

Mike Davis

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

Invisible Punishment

The Collateral Consequences of Mass Imprisonment

Edited by Marc Mauer and Meda Chesney-Lind

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

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 Betrayal of Work

How Low-Wage Jobs Fail 30 Million Americans

Beth Shulman

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

Al Qaeda and What It Means to Be Modern

John Gray

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

Bombs and Bandwidth

The Emerging Relationship Between Information Technology and Security

Edited by Robert Latham

The Decline of American Power

The U.S. in a Chaotic World

Immanuel Wallerstein

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

Power Play

The Fight to Control the World’s Electricity

Sharon Beder

The story behind the debacle of today’s power outages and soaring electricity costs

Profiles in Injustice

Why Racial Profiling Cannot Work

David A. Harris

Why racial profiling is not just wrong, but ineffective too

A Different Shade of Gray

Midlife and Beyond in the Inner City

Katherine S. Newman

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

Hooked

Five Addicts Challenge Our Misguided Drug Rehab System

Lonny Shavelson

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)

A Badly Flawed Election

Debating Bush v. Gore, the Supreme Court, and American Democracy

Edited by Ronald Dworkin

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

Critical Views of September 11

Analyses from Around the World

Edited by Eric Hershberg and Kevin W. Moore

Leading American social scientists examine the new world after September 11

The Health of Nations

Why Inequality Is Harmful to Your Health

Ichiro Kawachi, Bruce P. Kennedy

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

Terrorism and the Constitution

Sacrificing Civil Liberties in the Name of National Security

David Cole, James X. Dempsey

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

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?

Two Faces of Liberalism

John Gray

Fallout

The Environmental Consequences of the World Trade Center Collapse

Juan González

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

Truth & Lies

Stories from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa

Jillian Edelstein

Blue Gold

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

Maude Barlow, Tony Clarke

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

The New Nuclear Danger

George W. Bush’s Military-Industrial Complex

Helen Caldicott

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

Every Handgun Is Aimed at You

The Case for Banning Handguns

Josh Sugarmann

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)

Top Heavy

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

Edward N. Wolff

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

The Second Amendment in Law and History

Historians and Constitutional Scholars on the Right to Bear Arms

Edited by Carl T. Bogus

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

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

Jews for Buchanan

Did You Hear the One About the Theft of the American Presidency?

John Nichols

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

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                              

Discovering America

Travels in the Land of Guns, God, and Corporate Gurus

James Laxer

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

Legal Lynching

The Death Penalty and America’s Future

Jesse L. Jackson Sr., Jesse Jackson Jr., Bruce Shapiro

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

Global Capitalism

Edited by Will Hutton and Anthony Giddens

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

What’s Love Got to Do with It?

A Critical Look at American Charity

David Wagner

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”

Race to Incarcerate

Marc Mauer

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

The Invisible Heart

Economics and Family Values

Nancy Folbre

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

Cigarettes

Anatomy of an Industry from Seed to Smoke

Tara Parker-Pope

Rich Media, Poor Democracy

Communication Politics in Dubious Times

Robert W. McChesney

Crimes Against Humanity

The Struggle for Global Justice

Geoffrey Robertson

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

The Business of Journalism

Ten Leading Reporters and Editors on the Perils and Pitfalls of the Press

Edited by William Serrin

Slanting the Story

The Forces That Shape the News

Trudy Lieberman

False Dawn

The Delusions of Global Capitalism

John Gray

No Equal Justice

Race and Class in the American Criminal Justice System

David Cole

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

The End of Privacy

How Total Surveillance Is Becoming a Reality

Reg Whitaker

Universal Health Care

What the United States Can Learn from the Canadian Experience

Pat Armstrong, Hugh Armstrong

Forbidden Workers

Illegal Chinese Immigrants and American Labor

Peter Kwong

Conglomerates and the Media

Patricia Aufderheide, Erik Barnouw, Richard M. Cohen, Thomas Frank, David Lieberman, Mark Crispin Miller, Gene Roberts, Thomas Schatz

The Sneaker Book

Anatomy of an Industry and an Icon

Tom Vanderbilt

Room Service

Reports from Eastern Europe

Richard Swartz

Paradise Lost

California's Experience, America's Future

Peter Schrag

McLibel

Burger Culture on Trial

John Vidal

Sensible Justice

Alternatives to Prison

David C. Anderson

We the Media

A Citizens' Guide to Fighting for Media Democracy

Edited by Don Hazen and Julie Winokur

A Totally Alien Life-Form"

Teenagers

Sydney Lewis

Who's Afraid of Feminism?

Seeing through the Backlash

Edited by Ann Oakley and Juliet Mitchell

Edge of the Knife

Police Violence in the Americas

Paul Chevigny

The New American Crisis

Radical Analyses of the Problems Facing America Today

Edited by Greg Ruggiero and Stuart Sahulka

White House E-Mail

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

Edited by Tom Blanton

The Mexican Shock

Its Meaning for the United States

The True Cost of Conflict

Seven Recent Wars and Their Effects on Society

Edited by Michael Cranna

The Way Things Aren’t

Rush Limbaugh’s Reign of Error

FAIR

A City Year

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

Suzanne Goldsmith

WAC Stats

The Facts About Women

Women’s Action Coalition

Sex, Sin, and Blasphemy

A Guide to America’s Censorship Wars

Marjorie Heins

With Liberty and Justice for Some

A Critique of the Conservative Supreme Court

David Kairys

Open Fire

The Open Magazine Pamphlet Series Anthology

Edited by Greg Ruggiero and Stuart Sahulka

Partial Recall

Photographs of Native North Americans

Edited by Lucy R. Lippard

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