Featured Books


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Critical Race Realism: Intersections of Psychology, Race, and Law

A new way of looking at our legal system-focused on the nexus of social science, race and the law – that takes the field of critical legal studies into the twenty-first century



Iran: A People Interrupted

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



Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Tell About Life in the Segregated South

NOW IN PAPERBACK The sequel to Remembering Slavery, a groundbreaking collection of interviews about the segregation-era South



Digital Destiny: New Media and the Future of Democracy

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



Iraq and the Lessons of Vietnam: Or, How Not to Learn from the Past

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



Shakespeare's Kitchen: Stories

The much anticipated new book from the acclaimed author of Other People’s Houses and Her First American—Lore Segal’s first major work of fiction in twenty years



Unchecked and Unbalanced: Presidential Power in a Time of Terror

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



Made in America: Immigrant Students in Our Public Schools

PAPERBACK with a new introduction by author Laurie Olsen, this timely reissue probes the challenges facing teachers and immigrant students in our public schools



The Skin That We Speak: Thoughts on Language and Culture in the Classroom

The author of Other People’s Children joins with other experts to examine the relationship between language and power in the classroom



The Studs Terkel Interviews: Film and Theater

PAPERBACK An elegant new edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winner’s “richly entertaining”(Publishers Weekly) conversations with the masters of stage and screen



Possessing the Secret of Joy: A Novel

PAPERBACK The stunning New York Times bestseller, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Color Purple, reissued in a handsome new edition with a brand-new preface



Evil Paradises: Dreamworlds of Neoliberalism

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



City Kids, City Teachers: Reports from the Front Row

PAPERBACK a classic collection exploding the stereotypes of city schools, reissued as a companion to City Kids, City Schools



Berenice Abbott: Changing New York

NEWLY REISSUED After being out of print for several years, a stunning book of photographs that was a Wall Street Journal, Business Week, and Newsday best Book of the Year