 Spring 2013 Catalog
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Featured Books
Back to School
Why Everyone Deserves a Second Chance at Education
Mike Rose
From the celebrated author of Why School? and Lives on the Boundary, a compelling call for a new way of thinking about education beyond high school, one that redefines what it means to live in the land of opportunity
Big History
From the Big Bang to the Present
Cynthia Stokes Brown
New Edition: Jared Diamond meets Stephen Hawking in a book that fits human history into the history of the universe, by an American Book Award winner
Color Me English
Reflections on Migration and Belonging
Caryl Phillips
Now in paperback: Enchanting and provocative explorations of culture, race, and identity by the highly acclaimed British Caribbean winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize
The Coup
1953, the CIA, and the Roots of Modern U.S.-Iranian Relations
Ervand Abrahamian
From a leading historian of the Middle East, a lucid account of the CIA’s 1953 coup in Iran and how it paved the way to today’s diplomatic gridlock
Crimes Against Humanity
The Struggle for Global Justice
Geoffrey Robertson
The story of the rise of the human rights movement by the renowned international attorney, in a newly revised and expanded edition
Foodopoly
The Battle Over the Future of Food and Farming in America
Wenonah Hauter
An exposé of how agribusiness and food corporations are undermining a healthy food system—and how voting with your fork will not solve the problem
Game Over
How Politics Has Turned the Sports World Upside Down
Dave Zirin
PAPERBACK ORIGINAL: From the bestselling author of What’s My Name, Fool? and the commentator that Robert Lipsyte calls “the smartest and gutsiest sportswriter in America,” a razor-sharp analysis of how sports and politics mix today
Hard Times
An Illustrated Oral History of the Great Depression
Studs Terkel
The masterpiece that brings to life an era that resonates all too well with the current moment, reissued in a stunning new edition with documentary photographs from the celebrated Farm Security Administration archive
Howard Zinn
A Life on the Left
Martin Duberman
From the award-winning historian and activist Martin Duberman, a sweeping political biography of Howard Zinn, “the people’s historian” who himself made history, changing forever how we think about our past
In Praise of Love
Alain Badiou, Nicolas Truong
From one of the greatest living French philosophers, a spirited and moving defense of
twenty-first-century love
twenty-first-century love
Lessons from the Heartland
A Turbulent Half-Century of Public Education in an Iconic American City
Barbara J. Miner
A sweeping narrative portrait of the all-American city at the epicenter of public education reform—A Common Ground for the decades since the events chronicled in J. Anthony Lukas's Pulitzer Prize winner
"Multiplication Is for White People"
Raising Expectations for Other Peoples Children
Lisa Delpit
From the MacArthur Award-winning education reformer and author of the bestselling Other People's Children—a long-awaited new book on how to fix the persistent black/white achievement gap in America's public schools
The New Jim Crow
Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Michelle Alexander
Available January 2012 in paperback! The "explosive debut" (Kirkus) from a rising legal star in America arguing that we have not ended racial caste in America—we have simply redesigned it
The Shadow Girls
A Novel
Henning Mankell
From the internationally bestselling author—whose books have sold more than 40 million copies worldwide—a moving, unexpectedly funny new novel
Shattered
The Asian American Comics Anthology
Edited by Jeff Yang, Parry Shen, Keith Chow, and Jerry Ma
PAPERBACK ORIGINAL: The stunning new book by the authors of the acclaimed graphic collection of original Asian American comic book stories, Secret Identities
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Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow, has been awarded the Michael Harrington Best Book Award, given for a book of excellent academic quality with the potential to mobilize change on a pressing social and political issue.
Jefferson Cowie, author of Stayin’ Alive , was awarded the 2011 Annual Labor History Book Prize, presented by Labor History magazine to the best book in labor history studies.
Mary Cappello, author of Swallow, has been named a 2011 Guggenheim Fellow in Creative Arts/Nonfiction, appointed on the basis of prior achievement and exceptional promise.
Jane Rhode’s Framing the Black Panthers wins the 2010 North East Black Studies Association’s (formerly the North East Black Studies Alliance) annual W.E.B. Du Bois Book Prize. John Dower’s Cultures of War, which The New Press co-published with W. W. Norton, was named as a finalist for the National Book Award 2010 in the non-fiction category. The complete list of finalists is available at www.nationalbook.org/. Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow won the 2010 Association for Humanist Sociology Book Award. The Association for Humanist Sociology is a community of sociologists, educators, scholars, and activists who share a commitment to using sociology to promote peace, equality, and social justice. Paul Butler's Let's Get Free: A Hip-Hop Theory of Justice won the Judges' Award in the 2009 Harry Chapin Media Awards. Coordinated by WHY, a leader in the fight against hunger and poverty in the United States and around the world, the Harry Chapin Media Awards were established in 1982 to reward journalists for their coverage of hunger- and poverty-related issues. Moshe Adler's Economics for the Rest of Us tied for a gold medal in the 2010 Independent Publisher Book Awards (Finance/Investment/Economics category), while Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow took home a silver in its category, Current Events II (Social Issues/Public Affairs/Ecological/Humanitarian). Since 1996 the "IPPY" Awards have recognized the best indie-published books of the year. Patricia Sullivan's Lift Every Voice was a finalist for the 2010 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, chosen from nearly eighty submissions. The RFK Book Award has been recognized as one of the most prestigious honors an author can receive. Sarah Schulman's Ties That Bind is a finalist for the 22nd Annual Lambda Literary Awards in the LGBT Nonfiction Category. The "Lammy" is the most prestigious, competitive, and comprehensive literary award offered specifically to LGBT authors. For more than two decades the Lambda Literary Awards has brought attention to and honored exceptional writing about queer lives across multiple genres published by large and small presses. Ties That Bind is also a finalist for the ForeWord 2009 Book of the Year Award. Stephen Pimpare's A People's History of Poverty in America received the 2009 Michael Harrington Award from the Caucus for a New Political Science section of the American Political Science Association, "for demonstrating how scholarship can be used in the struggle for a better world." Chris Myers Asch, author of The Senator and The Sharecropper, received the 2008 Liberty Legacy Foundation of Award by the Organization of American Historians (OAH): awarded for the best book on any historical aspect of the struggle for civil rights in the United States from the nation's founding to the present. The Senator and The Sharecropper also won the Mississippi Historical Society's 2009 McLemore Prize for the most distinguished scholarly book on a topic in Mississippi history. Jonathan Curiel, author of Al' America, received the 2008 American Book Award, awarded by the Before Columbus Foundation to recognize outstanding literary achievement from the entire spectrum of America's diverse literary community. Maude Barlow, author of Blue Gold and Blue Covenant, received The Canadian Environment Awards Citation of Lifetime Achievement. Presented to an individual who has made an outstanding contribution to environmental protection, the award is Canada's highest environmental award.
Lore Segal's Shakespeare's Kitchen was nominated as a finalist for the 2008 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction.
Linda Coverdale's translation of Jean Echenoz's Ravel won the French-American Foundation's 2008 Translation Prize in Fiction. |
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