The New Press: 370 books
The Impact of Inequality
How to Make Sick Societies Healthier
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2009
A “powerful and provocative” inquiry into the relationship between societies’ inequality and their citizens’ health, happiness and well-being (Lisa Berkman, Harvard School of Public Health).
Comparing the United States with other market democracies, and one American state with another,...
Bombing Civilians
A Twentieth-Century History
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
Bombing Civilians examines a crucial question: why did military planning in the early twentieth century shift its focus from bombing military targets to bombing civilians? From the British bombing of Iraq in the early 1920s to the most recent policies in Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Lebanon, Bombing...
Beasts of Burden
Animal and Disability Liberation
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
Author platform: Taylor is well known in disability studies, arts, and activist circles and an experienced public speaker, with appearances at UC Berkeley, the Berkeley Art Museum, the Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture, California College for the Arts, the Chicago Cultural Center, and the New School,...
Classroom Conversations
A Collection of Classics for Parents and Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2008
In Classroom Conversations, two generations of educators-a mother and daughter-point us to the great thinkers who have shaped their beliefs and practices in education, and who continue to influence teachers today. Nineteen essays by educators from Dewey to Delpit offer parents and new educators an...
The Sky Is Falling
How Vampires, Zombies, Androids, and Superheroes Made America Great for Extremism
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
**A Sunday Times (London), Best Book of 2018
A thoughtful, entertaining, and occasionally profound critical study of the texts that entertain, move and, sometimes, shape us.”
-The Spectator (London)
A bold, witty, and brilliantly argued analysis of the role pop culture has played...
A Buffalo in the House
The True Story of a Man, an Animal, and the American West
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2006
**From a #1 New York Times–bestselling author, “**a heartwarming tale of bonding between people and animals” (Booklist).
A sprawling suburban house in Santa Fe is not the kind of home where a buffalo normally roams, but Veryl Goodnight and Roger Brooks are not your ordinary animal lovers....
by Michael A. Bellesiles
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
In A People’s History of the U.S. Military, historian Michael A. Bellesiles draws from three centuries of soldiers’ personal encounters with combat-through fascinating excerpts from letters, diaries, and memoirs, as well as audio recordings, film, and blogs-to capture the essence of the American...
Frackopoly
The Battle for the Future of Energy and the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
“The definitive story on how big oil and gas corporations captured our political system . . . and the growing grassroots movement to retake our democracy” (Mark Ruffalo).
Over the past decade a new and controversial energy extraction method known as hydraulic fracturing, commonly referred...
The Least Among Us
Waging the Battle for the Vulnerable
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
The outspoken Connecticut congresswoman provides “a powerful case for protecting and expanding America’s safety net” (Elizabeth Warren).
Cynical politicians like Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump argue that the people of the United States would be better off without food stamps, Obamacare,...
Offshore
Tax Havens and the Rule of Global Crime
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2012
Offshore reveals how the vast network of unregulated financial centers-from Luxemburg to the Cayman islands to the tiny Pacific haven of Nauru- amount to a nether realm of drug and arms trade profits, enormous private accounts, and multinational corporate financial holdings. Delving into the scandals,...
by Grégoire Chamayou
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
Drone warfare has raised profound ethical and constitutional questions both in the halls of Congress and among the U.S. public. Not since debates over nuclear warfare has American military strategy been the subject of discussion in living rooms, classrooms, and houses of worship. Yet as this groundbreaking...
In a Day’s Work
The Fight to End Sexual Violence Against America’s Most Vulnerable Workers
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
Over 17,000 women are sexually assaulted at work a year, according to the Justice Department
Almost two-thirds--60%--of those raped or sexually assaulted at work don’t report the incident to the police--the highest percentage of serious violent crimes in the workplace that go unreported.
Undocumented...
The War on Leakers
National Security and American Democracy, from Eugene V. Debs to Edward Snowden
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Four days before Pearl Harbor, in December 1941, someone leaked American contingency war plans to the Chicago Tribune. The small splash the story made was overwhelmed by the shock waves caused by the Japanese attack on the Pacific fleet anchored in Hawaii-but the ripples never subsided, growing quietly...
Enemy Combatant
My Imprisonment at Guantanamo, Bagram, and Kandahar
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
When Enemy Combatant was first published in the United States in hardcover in 2006 it garnered sensational reviews, and its author was featured in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, on National Public Radio, and on ABC News. A second generation British Muslim, Begg had been held by the U.S....