The New Press: 370 books
Wage Theft In America
Why Millions of Americans Are Not Getting Paid—And What We Can Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
“This book will give you an entirely new perspective on work in America.” —Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed
In what has been described as “the crime wave no one talks about,” billions of dollars’ worth of wages are stolen from millions of workers in the United States...
Out of the Classroom and into the World
Learning from Field Trips, Educating from Experience, and Unlocking the Potential of Our Students and Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Bank Street College of Education professor Salvatore Vascellaro is a leading advocate of taking children and teachers into a wider world as the key to improving our struggling schools.
Combining practical and theoretical guidance, Out of the Classroom and into the World visits a rich variety...
The Herb Kohl Reader
Awakening the Heart of Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
The best writing from a lifetime in the trenches and at the typewriter, from the renowned and much-beloved National Book Award–winning educator.
In more than forty books on subjects ranging from social justice to mathematics, morality to parenthood, Herb Kohl has earned a place as one of...
by Zoë Wicomb
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2007
A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year. “An urgent invitation to care for all children as our own.” —Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, author of Random Family
In this “moving condemnation of the U.S. penal system and its effect on families”, award-winning journalist Nell Bernstein takes...
And They All Sang
Adventures of an Eclectic Disc Jockey
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
The Pulitzer Prize–winning historian talks with some of twentieth century’s most iconic musicians—“Riveting . . . Just about every interview has a revelation” (San Francisco Chronicle).
Through the second half of the twentieth century, Studs Terkel hosted the legendary radio show...
Wrestling with the Devil
A Prison Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
**A New York Times Editors’ Choice
"A welcome addition to the vast literature produced by jailed writers across the centuries . . . [a] thrilling testament to the human spirit."
—Ariel Dorfman, The New York Times Book Review
"Wrestling with the Devil is a powerful...
Chain of Title
How Three Ordinary Americans Uncovered Wall Street’s Great Foreclosure Fraud
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
NOW IN PAPERBACK The "gripping" (New York Times) and "Hitchcockian"(Publishers Weekly) story of how a nurse, a car dealership worker, and a forensic expert took on the nation’s largest banks
A Kirkus Reviews and The Week best book of the year, David Dayen’s Chain of...
Shattered
The Asian American Comics Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Three years after the publication of the groundbreaking Asian American comics anthology Secret Identities, the same team is back with a new volume-bigger, bolder, and more breathtaking in scope.
While the first collection focused on the conventions of superhero comics, this new book expands...
by Henning Mankell
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
The #1 international-bestselling tale of greed, violence, and corporate power from the master of Scandinavian noir: “One of his best” (The Times, London).
After killing a man in the line of duty, Inspector Kurt Wallander finds himself deep in a personal and professional crisis; during more...
Lies Across America
What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
A fully updated and revised edition of the book USA Today called “jim-dandy pop history,” by the bestselling, American Book Award–winning author
From the author of the national bestseller Lies My Teacher Told Me, a completely updated—and more timely than ever—version of the myth-busting...
Hold Tight Gently
Michael Callen, Essex Hemphill, and the Battlefield of AIDS
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
In December 1995, the FDA approved the release of protease inhibitors, the first effective treatment for AIDS. For countless people, the drug offered a reprieve from what had been a death sentence; for others, it was too late. In the United States alone, over 318,000 people had already died from AIDS-related...
State of Resistance
What California’s Dizzying Descent and Remarkable Resurgence Mean for America’s Future
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Nationally known public intellectual: His first trade book on an upbeat story that’s of national interest
Growing platform: 3600 Twitter followers, head of two centers at USC that each have about 1k followers, and Pastor writes a few times each year at HuffPo.
Timeliness: California...
Big History
From the Big Bang to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
“This exciting saga crosses space and time to illustrate how humans, born of stardust, were shaped—and how they in turn shaped the world we know today.” —Publishers Weekly
This book offers “world history on a grand scale”—pulling back for a wider view and putting the relatively...
Strangers in Their Own Land
Anger and Mourning on the American Right
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
Sales of HC and EB: 120,000 copies in all editions, with 100,000 hardcovers in print
Recognition for HC: NYT, national bestseller, and National Book Award finalist [these will be featured on cover of pb]
With a new introduction by the author: Brings the argument into the midst of the...