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Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky
Noam Chomsky
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Peter Mitchell
New Press, The, 2002
A major new collection from "arguably the most important intellectual alive" ( The New York Times ). Noam Chomsky is universally accepted as one of the preeminent public intellectuals of the modern era. Over the past thirty years, broadly diverse audiences have gathered to attend his sold-out lectures. Now, in Understanding Power , Peter Mitchell and John Schoeffel have assembled the best of Chomsky's recent talks on the past, present, and ...
Why School?
Mike Rose
New Press, The, 2009
This little book is driven by big questions. What does it mean to be educated? What is intelligence? How should we think about intelligence, education, and opportunity in an open society? In Why School? , award-winning author and lifelong educator Mike Rose calls on us to consider our fundamental beliefs about education, eloquently arguing that contemporary education policy has lost its way. In the tradition of Jonathan Kozol, Rose ...
Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do
Studs Terkel
New Press, The, 1997
Studs Terkel records the voices of America. Men and women from every walk of life talk to him, telling him of their likes and dislikes, fears, problems, and happinesses on the job. Once again, Terkel has created a rich and unique document that is as simple as conversation, but as subtle and heartfelt as the meaning of our lives.... In the first trade paperback edition of his national bestseller, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Studs Terkel ...
Dr. Seuss Goes to War: The World War II Editorial Cartoons of Theodor Seuss Geisel
Richard H. Minear
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Art Spiegelman
New Press, The, 2001
The bestselling treasure trove of World War II political cartoons by Dr. Seuss. For decades, readers throughout the world have enjoyed the marvelous stories and illustrations of Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss. But few know the work Geisel did as a political cartoonist during World War II, for the New York daily newspaper PM . In these extraordinarily trenchant cartoons, Geisel presents "a provocative history of wartime ...
'I Won't Learn from You': And Other Thoughts on Creative Maladjustment
Herbert R. Kohl
New Press, The, 1995
"I Won't Learn from You," Herb Kohl's classic essay on "not learning," or refusing to learn, is now available in an affordable paperback edition, together with four new essays. Drawing on an idea of Martin Luther King Jr.'s, Kohl talks about the need for "creative maladjustment" in the classroom and indeed anywhere else that students' intelligence, dignity, or integrity are compromised by a teacher, an institution, or a larger social mindset. ...
Like a Hurricane: The Indian Movement from Alcatraz to Wounded Knee
Paul Chaat Smith
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Robert Allen Warrior
New Press, The, 1997
For a brief but brilliant season beginning in the late 1960s, American Indians seized national attention in a series of radical acts of resistance. Like a Hurricane is a gripping account of the dramatic, breathtaking events of this tumultuous period. Drawing on a wealth of archival materials, interviews, and the authors' own experiences of these events, Like a Hurricane offers a rare, unflinchingly honest assessment of the period's successes and ...
The Good War: An Oral History of World War II
Studs Terkel
New Press, The, 1997
A writer, reporter, and above all, a good listener, Studs Turkel has spent a career posing provocative questions and actively listening to the answers. In "The Good War" , Terkel talks to Americans, both famous and obscure, about their contrasting, not always golden, memories of the war that shaped their lives, World War II. This first trade paperback edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book features a new Preface by the author.
Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-AmericanFeminist Thought
New Press, The, 1995
"In this groundbreaking collection of articles, Dr. Guy-Sheftall has taken us from the early 1830s to contemporary times. Only since the seventies have black women used the term 'feminism.' And, yet, it is that concept that she uses to bring into the same frame the ideas and analyses of Maria Stewart, Sojourner Truth, and Frances Harper of the early nineteenth century, and the work of women such as Audre Lourde, Barbara Smith, and bell hooks, ...
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Michelle Alexander
New Press, The, 2010
Jarvious Cotton's great-great-grandfather could not vote as a slave. His great-grandfather was beaten to death by the Klu Klux Klan for attempting to vote. His grandfather was prevented from voting by Klan intimidation; his father was barred by poll taxes and literacy tests. Today, Cotton cannot vote because he, like many black men in the United States, has been labeled a felon and is currently on parole. --FROM THE NEW JIM CROW As the ...
The Moral Underground: How Ordinary Americans Subvert an Unfair Economy
Lisa Dodson
New Press, The, 2009
I pad their paychecks because you can't live on what they make. --SUPERVISOR OF A FAST-FOOD PIZZA PLACE Here is a book that tells the real story of the countless unsung heroes who bend or break the rules to help those millions of Americans with impossible schedules, paychecks, and lives. Whether it is a nurse choosing to treat an uninsured child, a supervisor deciding to overlook infractions, or a restaurant manager sneaking food to a ...
Mexican Lives
Judith Adler Hellman
New Press, The, 1995
Mexico is always a controversial subject in America. From California Governor Pete Wilson's Proposition 187 to the collapse of the peso in the early 1990s, Americans are hungry to understand more about this complex and important neighbor. Mexican Lives is a critically celebrated volume of interviews with Mexican men and women. Mexico expert Judith Adler Hellman takes us into the homes and workplaces of fifteen Mexicans who describe how they ...
No Equal Justice: Race and Class in the American Criminal Justice System
David Cole
New Press, The, 2000
Now in paperback, a devastating critique of race- and class-based inconsistencies in the American criminal justice system. In a hard-hitting study hailed by Publishers Weekly as "well-argued" and "passionate," leading constitutional scholar David Cole reveals that, despite a veneer of neutrality, race- and class-based double standards operate in virtually every criminal justice setting, from police behavior, to jury selection, to sentencing. ...
The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture
New Press, The, 2002
A handsome new edition of the seminal collection of late-twentieth-century cultural criticism. Named a Best Book of the Year by the Village Voice and considered a bible of contemporary cultural criticism, The Anti-Aesthetic is reissued now in a handsome new paperback edition. For the past twenty years, Hal Foster has pushed the boundaries of cultural criticism, establishing a vantage point from which the seemingly disparate agendas of ...
The Radical Reader: A Documentary History of the American Radical Tradition
New Press, The, 2003
Key documents illustrate the richness of the American radical tradition. Radicalism is as American as apple pie. One can scarcely imagine what American society would look like without the abolitionists, feminists, socialists, union organizers, civil-rights workers, gay and lesbian activists, and environmentalists who have fought stubbornly to breathe life into the promises of freedom and equality that lie at the heart of American democracy. ...
Capital Moves: RCA's 70-Year Quest for Cheap Labor
Jefferson Cowie
New Press, The, 2001
The highly acclaimed account of one renowned company's labor struggles in its rise to global power. Globalization is the lead story of the new century, but its roots reach back nearly one hundred years, to major corporations' quest for stable, inexpensive, and pliant sources of labor. Before the largest companies moved beyond national boundaries, they crossed state lines, abandoning the industrial centers of the Eastern Seaboard for impoverished ...
Fires in the Middle School Bathroom: Advice for Teachers from Middle Schoolers
Kathleen Cushman
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Laura Rogers
New Press, The, 2009
The Consumer Society Reader
Douglas Holt
New Press, The, 2000
"We live in what may be the most consumer-oriented society in history. . . .Once a purely utilitarian chore, shopping has been elevated to the status of a national passion."--Juliet B. Schor, The Overworked American . A unique and definitive reader on our "national passion"--buying stuff--and its consequences for American society. We are citizens, owners and workers, believers and heathens, but today more than anything else we are consumers. ...
Hooked: Five Addicts Challenge Our Misguided Drug Rehab System
Lonny Shavelson
New Press, The, 2002
"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 court-mandated rehab being debated across the country, Shavelson's in-depth look at the struggles of five addicts as they travel through the treatment maze makes a powerful case for reform. Highly readable and shaped by Shavelson's experience ...
People's History of Sports in the United States: 250 Years of Politics, Protest, People, and Play (New Press ...
Dave Zirin
New Press, The, 2009
In this long-awaited book from the rising superstar of sportswriting, whose blog ?The Edge of Sports? is read each week by thousands of people across the country, Dave Zirin offers a riotously entertaining chronicle of larger-than-life sporting characters and dramatic contests and what amounts to an alternative history of the United States as seen through the games its people played. Through Zirin?s eyes, sports are never mere games, but ...
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