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Dismantling Desegregation explains the consequences of resegregation and offers direction for a more constructive route toward an equitable future. By citing case studies of ten school districts...

The first history of Pakistan's cultural and intellectual capital, from one of the preeminent scholars of South Asia The city of Lahore was more than one thousand years old when it went through a...

A landmark reissue of Studs Terkel's classic microcosm of America, with a new foreword by the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and co-creator of the Division Street Revisited podcast"Remarkable. . ...

Dedicated readers and fans of Theodor Seuss Geisel, or Dr. Seuss, know of Seuss's fascinating, long-forgotten career as a political cartoonist for the New York daily newspaper PM during World War II...

In writing his Self-Portrait of Black America, anthropologist, folklorist, and humanist John Gwaltney went in search of "Core Black People"--the ordinary men and women who make up black America--and...

"Vivid case studies . . . Adler's frustration with wrongheaded economic thinking is as entertaining as it is thought provoking." -Publishers Weekly Why do so many contemporary economists consider...

The definitive edition of articles, interviews, and seminars by the renowned philosopher and historian Few philosophers have had as strong an influence on the way we think about power and knowledge...

How ideas such as civilization and progress have been used as a smoke screen for Western dominance, by the world-renowned sociologist Ever since the Enlightenment, Western intervention around the...

A concise and convincing presentation of the case for banning handguns in the United States.Author: Josh SugarmannPublisher: New PressPublication Date: Mar 01, 2001Number of Pages: 238 pagesBinding:...

Winner, Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award The groundbreaking book on race in schools that has become an essential handbook for teachers working to create antiracist classroomsIn the wake of the...

The deathbed manuscript attributed to Eva Peron.Author: Eva PeronPublisher: New PressPublication Date: Jul 01, 2005Number of Pages: 128 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1565843533ISBN-13:...

Eight renowned thinkers take philosophy to the streets in interviews drawn from a Toronto International Film Festival premiere Examined Life boldly takes philosophy out of the dark corners of the...

Ann Oakley came to widespread attention as part of the new school of British feminists to emerge in the 1960s, and has since earned a reputation as one of the most innovative feminist thinkers and...

Hailed by Kirkus Reviews as both "a convincing analysis of an international economy headed for disaster" and a "powerful challenge to economic orthodoxy," False Dawn shows that the attempt to impose...

A sequel to the award-winning Free at Last that includes moving letters from freed enslaved people to their families Drawn from the work of award-winning Freedmen and Southern Society Project at the...

Since its initial publication in hardcover in 2003, Fires in the Bathroom has been through multiple printings and received the attention of teachers across the country. Now in paperback, Kathleen...

The highly anticipated sequel to the bestselling Fires in the Bathroom-filled with practical, honest advice from middle school students to their teachersFollowing on the heels of the bestselling...

Pierre Bourdieu, described by The Nation as "worthy of the militant mantle of Sartre and Foucault," here continues the themes advanced so successfully in his previous book Acts of Resistance. Firing...

Washington, Franklin, Jefferson, Hamilton, Adams, and Madison--together they are best known as an intimate cadre of daring, brilliant men credited with our nation's founding. But does this group tell...

The tenth-anniversary edition of the book that showed "why we must move past historical nonsense so that a truer, more democratic national record can emerge" (School Library Journal) Originally...

A handsome new edition of an essential work by the groundbreaking historian of African American life in the nineteenth century Free at Last brings together some of the most remarkable correspondence...

"What Sun Tzu and Clausewitz were to war, Sharp. . . was to nonviolent struggle-strategist, philosopher, guru."-The New York TimesThe revolutionary word-of-mouth phenomenon, available for the first...

An award-winning author's powerful exploration of the remarkable women driving transformative change in America's food system It's well known that our industrialized food system has abandoned...

Front Lines is a pathbreaking collection of the most important, critically acclaimed plays written by the country's leading contemporary female playwrights. Including seven full scripts and...

A beautifully illustrated edition of Studs Terkel's timeless portraits of America's jazz legends, for readers of all ages Studs Terkel's first book, Giants of Jazz, is the master interviewer's...

In Global Finance at Risk, two economists whom John Kenneth Galbraith has hailed as "accomplished scholars of the first rank" propose a bold solution to the financial crises that threaten us all: a...

Nations worry about their shrinking sovereignty as large numbers of immigrants cross borders at will. This collection of essays asks if globalization is killing off the nation state.Author: Saskia...

Guests and Aliens presents a comprehensive analysis of worldwide immigration by one of the world's leading experts on globalization. Putting the current "crisis" of immigration into a historical...

First published in 1970, Studs Terkel's bestselling Hard Times has been called "a huge anthem in praise of the American spirit" (Saturday Review) and "an invaluable record" (The New York Times). With...

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Good War: A masterpiece of modern journalism and "a huge anthem in praise of the American spirit" (Saturday Review). In this "invaluable record" of one...