Featured Books

Bitterly Divided

The South's Inner Civil War

David Williams

From the author of the celebrated A People’s History of the Civil War, a new account of the confederacy’s collapse from within

City Kids, City Schools

More Reports from the Front Row

Edited by William Ayers, Gloria Ladson-Billings, Gregory Michie, and Pedro A. Noguera

The Devil in Dover

An Insider’s Story of Dogma v. Darwin in Small-Town America

Lauri Lebo

The page-turning story behind the 2005 intelligent design case in Dover, Pennsylvania-the case that made front-page news around the world

Everyday Antiracism

Getting Real About Race in School

Edited by Mica Pollock

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL Leading experts offer concrete and realistic strategies for dealing with race in schools in a groundbreaking book that should become required reading for every teacher in the country

Jews and American Comics

An Illustrated History of an American Art Form

Edited by Paul Buhle

A treasure trove of Jewish comic book art by both acknowledge masters and little known-stars, from Rube Goldberg to Aline Kominsky Crumb

Minding the Store

Great Writing About Business, from Tolstoy to Now

Edited by Robert Coles and Albert LaFarge

Entertaining and illuminating literary selections that explore the ethical quandaries of the workplace, collected by the Pulitzer prize-winning author of the Moral Lives of Children

The New Blue Media

How Michael Moore, MoveOn.org, Jon Stewart and Company Are Transforming Progressive Politics

Theodore Hamm

The penetrating-and entertaining-story of the rise of a new generation of liberal media figures, from Jon Stewart and Michael Moore to Moveon and the Blue Blogosphere

The Senator and the Sharecropper

The Freedom Struggles of James O. Eastland and Fannie Lou Hamer

Chris Myers Asch

The epic struggle for Black equality in the 20th century, told through the deeply-intertwined life histories of the staunch segregationist and his sharecropper nemesis

Whose Church?

A Concise Guide to Progressive Catholicism

Daniel C. Maguire

Noted social ethicist Dan Maguire explains what Catholicism actually says about good sex, women’s equality, social justice, and the environment

Whose Torah?

A Concise Guide to Progressive Judaism

Rebecca T. Alpert

Noted scholar and groundbreaking Rabbi Rebecca Alpert discusses what the Torah actually says about sex, war, poverty, the environment, and other major contemporary issues—from noted feminist scholar and groundbreaking rabbi Rebecca Alpert

New This Month

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