Bold Type Books imprint: 172 books

Unstoppable

The Emerging Left-Right Alliance to Dismantle the Corporate State

by Ralph Nader
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014

Ralph Nader has fought for over fifty years on behalf of American citizens against the reckless influence of corporations and their government patrons on our society. Now he ramps up the fight and makes a persuasive case that Americans are not powerless. In Unstoppable, he explores the emerging political...

The Battle for Gotham

New York in the Shadow of Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs

by Roberta Brandes Gratz
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2010

In the 1970s, New York City hit rock bottom. Crime was at its highest, the middle class exodus was in high gear, and bankruptcy loomed. Many people credit New York's “master builder” Robert Moses with turning Gotham around, despite his brutal, undemocratic. and demolition-heavy ways. Urban...

The Gods that Failed

How Blind Faith in Markets Has Cost Us Our Future

by Larry Eliott, Dan Atkinson
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2009

Over the past three decades, governments have ceded economic control to a new elite of free-market operatives and their colleagues in national and international institutions like the IMF, the World Bank, and the World Trade Organization. They promised economic stability but have delivered chaos. Their...

The Invisible Arab

The Promise and Peril of the Arab Revolutions

by Marwan Bishara
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012

The Invisible Arab traces the roots of the revolutions in the Arab world. Marwan Bishara, chief policy analyst of Al Jazeera English and the anchor of the program “Empire”, combines on-the-ground reporting, extensive research and scholarship, and political commentary in this book on the complex...

Belching Out the Devil

Global Adventures with Coca-Cola

by Mark Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009

Mark Thomas-a legendarily seditious comedian and human rights activist-is a recovering Coca-Cola addict, a self-described “middle-aged fat dad with asthma” who decides to trek around the globe investigating the stories and people Coca-Cola's iconic advertising campaigns don't mention: child laborers...

The World As It Is

Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress

by Chris Hedges
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011

Many liberals are disappointed with Barack Obama. Some talk of “betrayal,” while others are writing abject letters to the White House asking the president to come back to his “true self.” Chris Hedges, however, is a progressive who doesn't feel betrayed. “Obama was and is a brand,” he argues....

They Know Everything About You

How Data-Collecting Corporations and Snooping Government Agencies Are Destroying Democracy

by Robert Scheer
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015

They Know Everything About You is a groundbreaking exposé of how government agencies and tech corporations monitor virtually every aspect of our lives, and a fierce defense of privacy and democracy. The revelation that the government has access to a vast trove of personal online data demonstrates...

Money and Football: A Soccernomics Guide (INTL ed)

Why Chievo Verona, Unterhaching, and Scunthorpe United Will Never Win the Champions League, Why Manchester City, Roma, and Paris St. Germain Can, and Why Real Madrid, Bayern Munich, and Manchester United Cannot Be Stopped

by Stefan Szymanski
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015

Modern soccer is big business. From the ill-received takeover of Manchester United by the Glazer family to Paris Saint Germain's current shopping spree for the best footballers on the planet, soccer finance has become an increasingly important part of the game. Barely a summer goes by now without...

Tropic of Chaos

Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence

by Christian Parenti
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011

From Africa to Asia and Latin America, the era of climate wars has begun. Extreme weather is breeding banditry, humanitarian crisis, and state failure. In Tropic of Chaos, investigative journalist Christian Parenti travels along the front lines of this gathering catastrophe--the belt of economically...

Noncompliant

A Lone Whistleblower Exposes the Giants of Wall Street

by Carmen Segarra
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018

A first-hand account of the oversight of the big banks in the wake of the financial crisis, from the Federal Reserve examiner who refused to be silenced In 2011, Carmen Segarra took a job as at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York supervising for Goldman Sachs. It was an opportunity, she believed,...

China Safari

On the Trail of Beijing's Expansion in Africa

by Serge Michel, Michel Beuret
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2009

China has now taken Great Britain's place as Africa's third largest business partner. Where others only see chaos, the Chinese see opportunities. With no colonial past and no political preconditions, China is bringing investment and needed infrastructure to a continent that has been largely ignored...

A People's History of Science

Miners, Midwives, and Low Mechanicks

by Clifford D. Conner
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2009

We all know the history of science that we learned from grade school textbooks: How Galileo used his telescope to show that the earth was not the center of the universe; how Newton divined gravity from the falling apple; how Einstein unlocked the mysteries of time and space with a simple equation....

Rum

Rum

A Social and Sociable History of the Real Spirit of 1776

by Ian Williams
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2006

Ian Williams describes in captivating detail how Rum and the molasses that it was made from was to the 18th century what oil is today. Rum was used by the colonists to clear Native American tribes and to buy slaves. To make it, they regularly traded with the enemy French during the Seven Years' War,...

The Torture Report

A Graphic Adaptation

by Sid Jacobson, Scott Horton
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017

"The more who learn the truth the better off the country will be, because there is no better safeguard against the revival of torture than a well-informed public." --Jane Mayer, from the Introduction On December 9, 2014, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence released a report...
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