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Too often, the study of science, math, and technology is limited to the major successes of the Western world. Yet people all over the world have observed and explored nature and developed...

Until The New Press first published May It Please the Court in 1993, few Americans knew that every case argued before the Supreme Court since 1955 had been recorded. The original book-and-tape set...

In February of 2008, amid the looming global financial crisis, President Nicolas Sarkozy of France asked Nobel Prize-winning economists Joseph Stiglitz and Amartya Sen, along with the distinguished...

The New Press is proud to publish a new paperback edition of Mixed Blessings, the first book to discuss the cross-cultural process taking place in the work of contemporary Latino, Native, African,...

No Equal Justice is the seminal work on race- and class-based double standards in criminal justice. Hailed as a "shocking and necessary book" by The Economist, it has become the standard reference...

In Not Only for Myself , Harvard Law professor and leading critical legal scholar Martha Minow uses well-known incidents, such as the furor over the casting of Miss Saigon and the confirmation...

A teaching edition of the "thought-provoking study" History in the Making, which explores how our view of the history changes over time (Library Journal). Kyle Ward's celebrated History in the...

Matthew Yeomans begins his investigation into the role of oil in America by trying to spend a day without oil-only to stumble before exiting the bathroom (petroleum products play a role in shampoo,...

An intimate conversation between towering public intellectuals examining the contentious interplay between the Cuban Revolution and U.S. empire An audacious revolutionary experiment in the backyard...

Few historians have done more to change the way we see the history of modern times than Eric Hobsbawm. From his early books on the Industrial Revolution and European empires, to his magisterial 1995...

"An unremitting assault on the impact and pretensions of television [that] demolishes conventional arguments".Author: Pierre BourdieuPublisher: New PressPublication Date: Apr 01, 1999Number of Pages:...

On the Edge of the New Century is the sequel to Eric Hobsbawm's The Age of Extremes, a book of serious and challenging historical analysis that became a worldwide bestseller, now in paperback...

The classic, groundbreaking analysis of the role of race in the classroom and a guide for teaching across difference, from the MacArthur award-winning educator "Phenomenal. . . . [This book]...

"An immensely impressive, unclassifiable book." -The New RepublicOriginally published in 1964 and hailed by critics including Cynthia Ozick and Elie Wiesel, Other People's Houses is Lore Segal's...

Critical, independent voices are seldom found within the citadels of international finance. That's what makes Nomi Prins unique. During fifteen years as an executive at skyscraping banks like Goldman...

Back in print, Overlay is Lucy Lippard's classic book on contemporary art and its connection to prehistoric sites and symbols. Viewed by critics, artists, art historians, and students as the...

Explorations by 12 native American artists and writers into the images that have our ideas of Indianness, and the complex relationship of photography to identity.Author: Lucy R. LippardPublisher: New...

From an unlikely source, a compelling argument that when workers are paid fairly, everyone, including businesses, benefits "A compelling case for why it's time for America to invest in our greatest...

Pig Tales is the story of a young woman who lands a position at Perfumes Plus, a beauty boutique/"massage" parlor. She enjoys great success until she slowly metamorphoses into . . . a pig. What...

"In her ambitious third novel, Wicomb explores South Africa's history through a woman's attempt to answer questions surrounding her past" (The New Yorker). Set in a beautifully rendered 1990s Cape...

A former FBI agent's urgent call for law enforcement to prioritize far-right violence and end tolerance for police racism In Policing White Supremacy, former FBI agent Mike German, who worked...

From the author the New York Times Book Review calls "a lavishly gifted writer," this is the searing story of Tashi, a tribal African woman first glimpsed in The Color Purple whose fateful decision...

A devastating investigation into the "corporate poverty complex"--the myriad businesses that profit from the poor Poverty is big business in America. The federal government spends about $900 billion...

Essays on the lives of workers, the formation of class during the Gilded Age, and the lives of African American enslaved people and freedmen Finally available in paperback, Power and Culture is the...

A clear, expert, and inspiring guide to social change, based on case studies of grassroots movements that won, from two leading community and labor experts"Our movements must seek and win governing...

As clinical as it sounds to express the value of human lives, health, or the environment in cold dollars and cents, cost-benefit analysis requires it. More disturbingly, this approach is being...

"No country in history has ever handed over so many inmates to private corporations. This book looks at the consequences" (Eric Schlosser, bestselling author of Fast Food Nation). In Prison...

Racial profiling-as practiced by police officers, highway troopers, and customs officials-is one of America's most explosive public issues. But even as protest against the practice has swelled,...

An eye-opening look at the practice of "participatory defense," which allows families, friends, and others to help those charged with crimes, by the MacArthur Award-winning activist Over two million...

Historic writings by socialists, LGBT activists, environmentalists, and more: "An extraordinary collection of the voices of American dissidents." -Howard Zinn Protest Nation is a guide to the...