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The New American Crisis

• Paperback | Engels
• This work features some of America's leading activists and progressive thinkers examining the current conservative political climate and considering w... Lees meer

What the Night Tells the Day

Hector Bianciotti

• Hardcover | Engels
• Compared to Conrad, Nabokov, and Beckett by Octavio Paz, Argentine-born Hector Bianciotti is one of the leading literary figures in his adopted homela... Lees meer

Offshore

Alain Deneault

• Hardcover | Engels
• Offshore reveals how the vast network of unregulated financial centers--from Luxemburg to the Cayman islands to the tiny Pacific haven of Nauru-- amou... Lees meer

False Dawn

John Gray

• Paperback | Engels
• Hailed by Kirkus Reviews as both "a convincing analysis of an international economy headed for disaster" and a "powerful challenge to economic orthodo... Lees meer

Will the Last Reporter Please Turn Out the Lights

Robert W McChesney, Victor Pickard

• Paperback | Engels
• Essays by Thomas Frank, Clay Shirky, David Simon, and others: "Anyone concerned about the state of journalism should read this book." -- Library Journ... Lees meer

The Sandglass

Romesh Gunesekera

• Hardcover | Engels
• Already hailed as "intricate and compelling" by the Times Literary Supplement , The Sandglass is a striking novel by Sri Lankan author Romesh Guneseke... Lees meer

Daniel

Henning Mankell

• Hardcover | Engels
• From the bestselling author of the Kurt Wallander novels: The "haunting and fascinating" tale of a young boy's harrowing odyssey from Africa to Sweden... Lees meer

The People's Constitution

John F Kowal, Wilfred U Codrington III

• Hardcover | Engels
• The 233-year story of how the American people have taken an imperfect constitution--the product of compromises and an artifact of its time--and made i... Lees meer

A School of Our Own

Samuel Levin, Susan Engel

• Hardcover | Engels
• The remarkable true story of the high school junior who started his own school--and earned acclaim nationwide--" will make you laugh, cry and cheer" (... Lees meer

Utopistics

Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein

• Paperback | Engels
• The twentieth century has witnessed both the triumphs and failures of the dreams that have informed the modern world. In Utopistics , Immanuel Wallers... Lees meer

After the New Economy

Doug Henwood

• Paperback | Engels
• Rarely a day went by in the dizzy 1990s without some well-paid pundit heralding the triumphant arrival of a "New Economy." According to these financia... Lees meer

Landscapes of Communism

Owen Hatherley

• Hardcover | Engels
• When communism took power in Eastern Europe it remade cities in its own image, transforming everyday life and creating sweeping boulevards and vast, e... Lees meer

All That We Share

Jay Walljasper

• Paperback | Engels
• How you see the world is about to change. All That We Share is a wake-up call that will inspire you to see the world in a new way. As soon as you real... Lees meer

Going Public

Judith Renyi

• Hardcover | Engels
• By undertaking to educate every single American child all the way through high school, the United States has set for itself a goal unrivaled by any ot... Lees meer

37 Words

Sherry Boschert

• Hardcover | Engels
• A sweeping history of the federal legislation that prohibits sex discrimination in education, published on the fiftieth anniversary of Title IX "No pe... Lees meer

Slave Old Man

Patrick Chamoiseau

• Hardcover | Engels
• The "heart-stopping" ( The Millions ), "richly layered" ( Brooklyn Rail ), "haunting, beautiful" ( BuzzFeed ) story of an escaped captive and the kill... Lees meer

Cigarettes

Tara Parker-Pope

• Paperback | Engels | Bazaar Book
• Cigarettes chronicles the controversies of a 350 billion dollar industry, telling the fast-paced business story of cigarettes--from seed to smoke--tha... Lees meer

Industry and Empire

Eric Hobsbawm

• Paperback | Engels
• Premier historian Eric Hobsbawm's brilliant study of the Industrial Revolution, which sold more than a quarter of a million copies in its original edi... Lees meer

Hell Is a Very Small Place

• Paperback | Engels
• NOW IN PAPERBACK The "elegant but harrowing" ( San Francisco Chronicle ) collection of writing from solitary confinement that lifts the veil on this w... Lees meer

Playing in the Light

Zoe Wicomb

• Hardcover | Engels
• Set in a beautifully rendered 1990s Cape Town, Zoëml; Wicomb's celebrated novel revolves around Marion Campbell, who runs a travel agency but hates tr... Lees meer

Dr. Seuss & Co. Go to War

André Schiffrin

• Paperback | Engels
• 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... Lees meer

Hypercapitalism

Larry Gonick, Tim Kasser

• Paperback | Engels
• PAPERBACK ORIGINAL From the bestselling cartoonist of The Cartoon History of the Universe comes an explosive graphic takedown of capitalism Bestsellin... Lees meer

Mexican Lives

Judith Adler Hellman

• Paperback | Engels
• On the eve of the most significant trade agreement in recent Mexico-U.S. history, Judith Adler Hellman, a leading authority on Mexican politics, went ... Lees meer

Usual Cruelty

Alec Karakatsanis

• Hardcover | Engels
• From an award-winning civil rights lawyer, a profound challenge to our society's normalization of the caging of human beings, and the role of the lega... Lees meer