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On any given day in America, more than 80,000 people are held in solitary confinement-held in utter isolation for twenty-three or twenty-four hours a day, moved there from the general population...

Available for the first time in paperback after being widely reviewed and discussed upon its hardcover publication, Historians in Trouble is investigative journalist and historian Jon Wiener's...

The New Press's four&-volume Postwar French Thought Series charts the intellectual transformations that took place in post-World War II France. Histories, the first volume in the Series, focuses on...

When Joshua Steckel left his job as a private school college counselor on New York City's Upper East Side to work at a public high school in Brooklyn, he discovered that for low-income students the...

Home Fronts offers a vivid cross-section of American intellectual, political, and cultural life in wartime over the past century. This work collects brief excerpts, each given historical context...

"Deeply felt, deftly rendered, stunningly informative and often enraging" (Publishers Weekly), Hooked appears as we are finally waking up to the inadequacies of our current drug-rehab policies. With...

The bestselling author pulls no punches on what America needs to defeat white supremacy National political commentator Steve Phillips's "politically charged and thoughtfully reasoned" (Booklist) How...

In this unprecedented collection, Pamela Maria Smorkaloff brings together fiction from the French-, Spanish-, and English-speaking Caribbean, much of it translated here for the first time. The book's...

The renowned French philosopher's "ode to love's power to unite in the face of eternity, and its optimism in the face of pain" (Publishers Weekly). In a world rife with consumerism, where online...

Premier historian Eric Hobsbawm's brilliant study of the Industrial Revolution, which sold more than a quarter of a million copies in its original edition, is now back in print, updated for a new...

The seventy-fifth anniversary edition of Gunther's classic portrait of America John Gunther's Inside series were among the most popular books of reportage of the 1930s and 1940s. For Inside U.S.A.,...

A powerful argument that greater inclusion of women in conservation and climate science is key to the future of the planet Women are disproportionately impacted by climate change--floods, droughts,...

The result of a unique international collaborative investigation by Russian, French, and Swiss scholars into hundreds of private, unpublished diaries found in remote libraries, archives, and family...

A brilliant approach to the economics of caregiving and feminized work, from the MacArthur Award-winning economist"Important and illuminating . . . an outstandingly provocative book about the...

A deeply informed political and cultural narrative of a country thrust into the international spotlight Praised by leading academics in the field as "extraordinary," "a brilliant analysis," "fresh,...

As the recent presidential campaign revealed, the Vietnam War remains a political lightning rod. In the 1980s, even as a Gallup poll listed Fonda as one of the most admired women in the country,...

A "deeply moving book" (Studs Terkel) and the first ever oral history to document the experience of ordinary Japanese people during World War II"Hereafter no one will be able to think, write, or...

Drawing on decades of experience and research, John W. Dower, author of the award-winning War Without Mercy, highlights for the first time the resemblances between wartime, postwar, and contemporary...

From a description of Sartre's hitherto unknown father to the painful last moments of Sartre's declining years, this intimate portrait incorporates previously untold aspects of Sartre's private,...

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning Philadelphia Inquirer reporter William Ecenbarger comes the expos? of a shocking scandal that ruined thousands of young lives. As the Boston Globe wrote, "the story is...

"[Diamond] has captured the world of the class-at times chaotic, always busy, usually inspired"- Essential reading for parents and teachers alike (Los Angeles Times). Hailed by renowned educator...

The top American writers on labor provide vital historical context for the current upsurge in union organizing In 1954, the American labor movement reached its historic height, with one-third of all...

In Law Lit, acclaimed novelist and law professor Thane Rosenbaum delves into our cultural obsession with the law, exploring how the legal system has historically captivated the imagination of artists...

Radical ideas for changing the justice system, rooted in the real-life experiences of those in overpoliced communities, from the acclaimed former federal prosecutor and author of Chokehold Paul...

"Moving, deeply introspective and honest" (Publishers Weekly) reflections on exile and memory from five award-winning authors. All of the authors in Letters of Transit have written award-winning...

A graphic adaptation of the bestselling book about what most American history textbooks get wrong--Author: James W. Loewen, Nate PowellPublisher: New PressPublication Date: Apr 16, 2024Number of...

Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got WrongAuthor: James W. LoewenPublisher: NEW PRESSPublication Date: Jul 17, 2018Number of Pages: 480 pagesLanguage:...

It's the mid-1960s, and everyone is fighting back. Black Americans are fighting for civil rights, the counterculture is trying to subvert the Vietnam War, and women are fighting for their liberation...

As the United States reexamines its borders and immigration policies, the debate over educating immigrant students in our public schools has divided Americans. What can teachers and immigrant...

George Monbiot is known to millions for his newspaper commentaries, which are widely circulated on the Internet. Now in paperback, Monbiot's Manifesto for a New World Order offers a plan for...