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Songs of Blood and Sword
A Daughter's Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
In September 1996, fourteen-year-old Fatima Bhutto hid in a windowless dressing room, shielding her baby brother, while shots rang out in the dark outside the family home in Karachi. This was the night her father Murtaza was murdered. It was the latest in a long line of tragedies for one of the world's...
The 51 Day War
Ruin and Resistance in Gaza
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
On July 8, 2014, Israel launched air strikes on Hamas-controlled Gaza, followed by a ground invasion. The ensuing conflict led to 51 days of war that left over 2,000 people dead, the vast majority of whom were Palestinian civilians. During the assault, at least 10,000 homes were destroyed and, according...
Beware of Small States
Lebanon, Battleground of the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2010
Lebanon, a country no bigger than Connecticut, has become a battleground for the political, strategic and ideological conflicts of its neighbors and the great powers. It has come to reflect the broad historical experiences of the modern Middle East. Beware of Small States is an elegant and incisive...
Republican Gomorrah
Inside the Movement that Shattered the Party
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Over the last year, award-winning journalist and videographer Max Blumenthal has been behind some of the most sensational (and
funniest) exposes of Republican machinations. Whether it was his revelation that Sarah Palin was "anointed" by a Kenyan priest famous for casting out witches, or...
The Black Panthers
Portraits from an Unfinished Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Brilliant, painful, enlightening, tearful, tragic, sad, and funny, this photo-essay book is at its core about healing, and about the social justice work that still needs to be done in the era of hip-hop, Black Lives Matter, and the historic presidency of Barack Obama.” -Kevin Powell, author of...
by Fidel Castro
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2009
Early in Ann Louise Bardach's Cuban voyage she came across Cartas de Presidio or The Prison Letters of Fidel Castro. Edited by Luis Conte Aguero, who was the recipient of most of these letters, they are cited in every important work from Hugh Thomas' opus Cuba to Tad Szulc's Fidel biography, and everything...
by Eduardo Galeano
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
The internationally acclaimed last work by the legendary Latin American writer
Master storyteller Eduardo Galeano was unique among his contemporaries (Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Mario Vargas Llosa among them) for his commitment to retelling our many histories, including the stories of those...
by Chris Hedges
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2010
The liberal class plays a vital role in a democracy. It gives moral legitimacy to the state. It makes limited forms of dissent and incremental change possible. The liberal class posits itself as the conscience of the nation. It permits us, through its appeal to public virtues and the public good,...
Futebol Nation
The Story of Brazil through Soccer
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
No nation is as closely identified with the game of soccer as Brazil. For over a century, Brazil's people, politicians, and poets have found in soccer the finest expression of the nation's collective potential. Since the team's dazzling performance in 1938 at the World Cup in France, Brazilian soccer...
Mighty Be Our Powers
How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
The winner of the Nobel Peace Prize shares her inspirational, powerful story of how a group of women working together created an unstoppable force that brought peace to Liberia.
As a young woman, Leymah Gbowee was broken by the Liberian civil war, a brutal conflict that destroyed her country...
by Henry James
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
To travel with James in these pages is to take an unhurried vacation with a thoroughly seasoned, supremely cultivated, acutely intelligent companion. Our guide is a curious, engaged observer not only of landscapes and streets and cathedrals but also of paintings and plays and the characteristics—national,...
No House to Call My Home
Love, Family, and Other Transgressions
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
In this lyrical debut, Ryan Berg immerses readers in the gritty, dangerous, and shockingly underreported world of homeless LGBTQ teens in New York. As a caseworker in a group home for disowned LGBTQ teenagers, Berg witnessed the struggles, fears, and ambitions of these disconnected youth as they resisted...
Gangs in Garden City
How Immigration, Segregation, and Youth Violence are Changing America's Suburbs
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2009
For the past five years, journalist Sarah Garland has followed the lives of current and former gang members living in Hempstead on the border of Garden City, Long Island. Affiliated with Mara Salvatrucha and 18th Street, their troubling personal stories expose the cruel realities of segregation, racial...
Angry White Men
American Masculinity at the End of an Era
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
"Kimmel has made a career out of being what you might call a man-translator."-The Atlantic
The white American male voter is alive and well--and angry as hell.
Sociologist Michael Kimmel, one of the leading writers on men and masculinity, has spent hundreds of hours in the company...