Metropolitan Books imprint: 234 books

Dilemmas of Domination

The Unmaking of the American Empire

by Walden Bello
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013

From the acclaimed globalization critic, a far-reaching analysis of America's military, economic, and political vulnerability The empire seems unassailable, but the empire is weak-and precisely because of its imperial ambitions. So argues Walden Bello's provocative new book, which systematically...

Power Systems

Conversations on Global Democratic Uprisings and the New Challenges to U.S. Empire

by Noam Chomsky, David Barsamian
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013

A compelling new set of interviews on our changing and turbulent times with Noam Chomsky, one of the world's foremost thinkers In this new collection of conversations, conducted from 2010 to 2012, Noam Chomsky explores the most immediate and urgent concerns: the future of democracy in the Arab...

Resource Wars

The New Landscape of Global Conflict

by Michael Klare
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2001

This sobering look at the future of warfare predicts that conflicts will now be fought over diminishing supplies of our most precious natural resources. From the barren oilfields of Central Asia to the lush Nile delta, from the busy shipping lanes of the South China Sea to the uranium mines...

The Big Necessity

The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters

by Rose George
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2009

"One smart book . . . delving deep into the history and implications of a daily act that dare not speak its name." —Newsweek Acclaimed as "extraordinary" (The New York Times) and "a classic" (Los Angeles Times), The Big Necessity is on its way to removing the...

A World Without Work

Technology, Automation, and How We Should Respond

by Daniel Susskind
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2020

From an Oxford economist, A World Without Work is a visionary look at how advances in artificial intelligence will erode employment across all types of occupations For all the general anxiety about computers taking people’s jobs, economists have long been optimistic about technology’s impact...

The Seventh Decade

The New Shape of Nuclear Danger

by Jonathan Schell
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2007

From the bestselling author of The Fate of the Earth, a provocative look at the urgent threat posed by America's new nuclear policies When the cold war ended, many Americans believed the nuclear dilemma had ended with it. Instead, the bomb has moved to the dead center of foreign policy and...

Ecology of Fear

Los Angeles And The Imagination Of Disaster

by Mike Davis
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014

Los Angeles has become a magnet for the American apocalyptic imagination. Riot, fire, flood, earthquake...only locusts are missing from the almost biblical list of disasters that have struck the city in the 1990s. From Ventura to Laguna, more than one million Southern Californians have been directly...

Everything in This Country Must

A Novella and Two Stories

by Colum McCann
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013

In a daring tour de force, one of our writers takes on the most intractable of conflicts--the Troubles in Northern Ireland. In Everything in This Country Must, his fourth book, Colum McCann, a writer of fierce originality and haunting lyricism, turns to the Troubles and reveals, as only fiction...

We Meant Well

How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People

by Peter Van Buren
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011

A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction of 2011 title From a State Department insider, the first account of our blundering efforts to rebuild Iraq—a shocking and rollicking true-life tale of Americans abroad Charged with rebuilding Iraq, would you spend taxpayer money on a sports mural in...

A Question of Torture

CIA Interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on Terror

by Alfred McCoy
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007

A startling exposé of the CIA's development and spread of psychological torture, from the Cold War to Abu Ghraib and beyond In this revelatory account of the CIA's secret, fifty-year effort to develop new forms of torture, historian Alfred W. McCoy uncovers the deep, disturbing roots of recent...

A People's History of American Empire

The American Empire Project, A Graphic Adaptation

by Howard Zinn, Mike Konopacki, Paul Buhle
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008

Adapted from the bestselling grassroots history of the United States, the story of America in the world, told in comics form Since its landmark publication in 1980, A People's History of the United States has had six new editions, sold more than 1.7 million copies, become required classroom...

Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation

The Definitive Guide to the Evolutionary Biology of Sex

by Olivia Judson
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2003

A sex guide for all living things and a hilarious natural history in the form of letters to and answers from the preeminent sexpert in all creation. Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation is a unique guidebook to sex. It reveals, for example, when necrophilia is acceptable and who should...
by Herta Müller
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012

A masterful new novel from the winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize, hailed for depicting the "landscape of the dispossessed" with "the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose" (Nobel Prize Committee) It was an icy morning in January 1945 when the patrol came for seventeen-year-old...

Spies

A Novel

by Michael Frayn
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2003

From the bestselling author of Headlong, a mesmerizing novel about secrecy, imagination, and a child's game turned deadly earnest The sudden trace of a disturbing, forgotten aroma compels Stephen Wheatley to return to the site of a dimly remembered but troubling childhood summer in wartime...
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