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  • THE PRISON INDUSTRY
    BIANCA TYLEK / WORTH RISES
    A meticulous exposé of who profits from incarceration, culminating in a compelling case for abolition Based on years of research by the criminal justice organization Worth Rises—best known for campaigns that have revolutionized prison telecom and made prison and jail communication free in cities and states around the country—The Prison Industry maps the range of ways in which p...

    $373.00

  • DECOLONIZING LANGUAGE AND OTHER REVOLUTIONARY IDEAS
    NGŨGĨ WA THIONG'O
    A Literary Hub Most Anticipated Book Brilliant thoughts on modern African literature and postcolonial literary criticism from one of the giants of contemporary letters “One of the greatest writers of our time.” —Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, bestselling author Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o was a towering figure in African literature, and his novels A Grain of Wheat; Weep Not, Child; and Petals...

    $461.00

  • DEMOLITION AGENDA
    THOMAS O. MCGARITY
    A sweeping account of the first Trump administration’s systematic dismantling of the national agencies that protect our health, safety, and climate—and the progressive and equitable political future that is possible when we put people over power and greed “The sort of book that journalists, activists, and historians may want to keep on their shelves—forever.” —Forbes Magazine N...

    $337.00

  • SURVIVING OUR CATASTROPHES
    ROBERT JAY LIFTON
    From the National Book Award winner, a powerful and timely rumination that ”cuts through the existential fog to reveal something like hope” (The Washington Post) In this moving and ultimately hopeful meditation on the psychological aftermath of catastrophe, award-winning psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton shows us how to cope with the lasting effects and legacy of the COVID-19 pand...

    $319.00

  • HOW TO TEACH COLLEGE
    JAMES W. LOEWEN
    From the bestselling author of Lies My Teacher Told Me comes a profound and practical road map for cultivating a rewarding, empowering classroom experience for both teachers and students—brimming with lessons for lifelong learners “Not a few professors teach solely because they have to, to hold a position that lets them do what they really want to do, which is ‘their work’—thei...

    $497.00

  • COPAGANDA
    ALEC KARAKATSANIS
    In this groundbreaking expose essential for understanding rising authoritarianism, award-winning civil rights lawyer Alec Karakatsanis introduces the concept of “Copaganda.” Copaganda is a special kind of propaganda employed by police, prosecutors, and news media to stoke fear of police-recorded crime and distort society’s response to it. What readers will discover: How mass me...

    $568.00

  • KING OF THE NORTH
    JEANNE THEOHARIS
    A Ms. Magazine Most Anticipated Book Shortlisted 2025, Museum of African American History Stone Book Award From the New York Times bestselling author, a radical reframing of the life and work of Martin Luther King Jr. “Theoharis shows us through penetrating research and sensitive, scholarly insight that Dr. King not only was keenly aware of the history of antiblack racism in th...

    $550.00

  • BAD LAW
    ELIE MYSTAL
    In this New York Times bestseller, Elie Mystal offers a brilliant takedown of ten shocking pieces of legislation that continue to perpetuate hate, racial bias, injustice, and inequality today—an urgent yet hopeful read for our current political climate “Mystal is a grassroots legal superhero, and his superpower is the ability to explain to the masses in clear language the all-t...

    $479.00

  • GHOST IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE MACHINE
    EMILE SUOTONYE DEWEAVER
    A powerful personal investigation of the insidious ways white supremacy compromises criminal justice reform, from the award-winning, formerly incarcerated activist and Soros Justice Fellow Despite reform efforts that have grown in scope and intensity over the last two decades, the machine of American mass incarceration continues to flourish. In this powerful polemic, formerly i...

    $497.00

  • POISON IVY
    EVAN MANDERY
    An eye-opening look at how America’s elite colleges and suburbs help keep the rich rich—making it harder than ever to fight the inequality that divides us “A potent investigation into how elite colleges and universities in the U.S. perpetuate economic inequalities and fail to properly address the country’s ongoing racial divide.” —Kirkus Reviews Hailed as a “staggering portrait...

    $355.00

  • LABOR’S PARTISANS
    NELSON LICHTENSTEIN, SAMIR SONTI
    The top writers on labor provide vital historical context for the current upsurge in union organizing In 1954, the American labor movement reached its historic height, with one-third of all nonagricultural workers belonging to a union—and much higher percentages in the nation’s key industries. That same year, a group of writers and activists, many with close ties to organized l...

    $532.00

  • ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE
    NATASHA HAKIMI ZAPATA
    A Literary Hub Most Anticipated Book Real-world solutions to America’s thorniest social problems—from housing to retirement to drug addiction—based on original reporting from around the world A new generation of Americans has declared that another world is possible. And yet, the stubborn problems of inequality, climate change, and declining health seem as intractable as ever. W...

    $550.00

  • POLICING WHITE SUPREMACY
    MIKE GERMAN / BETH ZASLOFF
    A former FBI agent’s urgent call for law enforcement to prioritize far-right violence and end tolerance for police racism In Policing White Supremacy, former FBI agent Mike German, who worked undercover in white supremacist and militia groups, issues a wake-up call about law enforcement’s dangerously lax approach to far-right violence. Despite over a hundred deadly acts by far-...

    $532.00

  • CONFIDENTIAL
    MIKOŁAJ GRYNBERG
    A Literary Hub Most Anticipated Book The darkly comic tale of three generations of a Jewish family, from one of Poland’s most renowned contemporary authors “A novel sparing only in words and form, not in emotion.” —Vogue (Poland) Confidential follows on the success of acclaimed photographer, psychologist, and writer Mikołaj Grynberg’s highly acclaimed short story collection, I’...

    $355.00

  • THE SUSTAINABILITY CLASS
    VIJAY KOLINJIVADI / AARON VANSINTJAN
    An original argument that environmental sustainability has been co-opted by the urban elite, along with examples from around the world of ways we can save our planet “Caring for the environment means reclaiming ecology for everyone.” —from the introduction A sustainability apartheid is emerging. More than ever, urban residents want to be green, yet to cater to their interests, ...

    $497.00

  • PAY THE PEOPLE!
    JOHN DRISCOLL / MORRIS PEARL / THE PATRIOTIC MILLIONAIRES
    Shortlisted, 2025 Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice From an unlikely source, a compelling argument that when workers are paid fairly everyone, including businesses, benefits “A compelling case for why it’s time for America to invest in our greatest asset—our people.” —Indra Nooyi, former CEO of PepsiCo Seventy percent of the U.S. economy relies on co...

    $319.00

  • FROM THE GROUND UP
    STEPHANIE ANDERSON
    An award-winning author’s powerful exploration of the remarkable women driving transformative change in America’s food system It’s well known that our industrialized food system has abandoned priorities of nutrition and environmental stability in the pursuit of profit—a model designed to fail, especially as climate change escalates. Yet this groundbreaking book describes a glim...

    $497.00

  • THE PRICE THEY PAID
    JEFF FORRET
    A prizewinning historian uncovers one of the earliest instances of reparations in America—ironically, though perhaps not surprisingly, paid to slaveholders, not former slaves “A spectacular achievement of historical research. Forret shows for the first time just how far the American government went to secure reparations.” —Robert Elder‚ author of Calhoun: American Heretic Winne...

    $532.00

  • TRANSCEND
    SANDRA CHEN WEINSTEIN
    The latest in the groundbreaking series of photobooks on LGBTQ life around the world, an intimate, personal collection of photographs on the queer community in the U.S. Recent years have seen an unprecedented push by state legislatures to pass anti-LGBTQ bills across the United States. Hundreds of laws, mainly attempting to ban access to gender-affirming healthcare for transgen...

    $390.00

  • DIVISION STREET
    STUDS TERKEL
    A landmark reissue of Studs Terkel’s classic microcosm of America, with a new foreword by the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and co-creator of the Division Street Revisited podcast “Remarkable. . . . Division Street astonishes, dismays, exhilarates.” —The New York Times When New Press founder André Schiffrin first published Division Street in 1967, Studs Terkel’s reputation ...

    $390.00

  • DISRUPTED CITY
    MANAN AHMED ASIF
    A stunning history of Pakistan’s cultural and intellectual capital, from one of the preeminent scholars of South Asia Longlisted, 2025 Cundill History Prize The city of Lahore was more than one thousand years old when it went through a violent schism. As the South Asian subcontinent was partitioned in 1947 to gain freedom from Britain’s colonial hold, and the Islamic Republic o...

    $532.00

  • CHARGING FORWARD
    CHRIS BENNER / MANUEL PASTOR
    A clarion call for justice in the quest for clean energy California’s Salton Sea region is home to some of the worst environmental health conditions in the country. It is also ground zero for a new “lithium gold rush”—a race to extract a mineral critical to the rapidly expanding electric vehicle and renewable energy storage markets. With enough lithium lurking beneath the surfa...

    $497.00

  • THE POWER OF BASKETBALL
    NATIONAL BASKETBALL SOCIAL JUSTICE COALITION, JAMES CADOGAN & ED CHUNG
    Leading lights of the NBA on why the fight for social justice and racial equality matters to them—and to all of us “At the root of this coalition, what binds and joins us together is a shared desire to fight for everyone to be treated with dignity, no matter their race, education, religion, sexual orientation, or economic situation.” —CJ McCollum, president, National Basketball...

    $497.00

  • A SECOND CHANCE
    JUDGE FREDERIC BLOCK
    A sitting federal judge’s lively and provocative recounting of six cases, to make the argument for revisiting overly punitive sentences Murderous mafia capos. The police officer who brutalized Abner Louima. A purveyor of child pornography. These are some of the defendants to have come before U.S. District Court Judge Frederic Block to ask for reductions in their prison sentence...

    $497.00

  • WAR MADE INVISIBLE
    NORMAN SOLOMON
    With a new preface by the author on the Gaza war An unflinching exposé of the hidden costs of American war-making written with “an immense and rare humanity” (Naomi Klein) by one of our premier political analysts Every election cycle, candidates across the political spectrum repudiate what has become one of the most consequential and enduring components of American foreign poli...

    $337.00

  • STOLEN PRIDE
    ARLIE RUSSELL HOCHSCHILD
    In her first book since the widely acclaimed Strangers in Their Own Land, National Book Award finalist and bestselling author Arlie Russell Hochschild now ventures to Appalachia, uncovering the "pride paradox" that has given the right's appeals such resonance. A 2024 New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Pick A New York Times Book Review Best Book of the Year One of Barack...

    $550.00

  • WON’T LOSE THIS DREAM
    ANDREW GUMBEL
    The “heartfelt” (Shelf Awareness) story of how Georgia State University tore up the rulebook for educating lower-income students Published to wide acclaim, Won’t Lose This Dream is the “illuminating” (Times Literary Supplement) story of a public university that has blazed an extraordinary trail for lower-income and first-generation students in downtown Atlanta, the birthplace o...

    $337.00

  • A PLAUSIBLE MAN
    SUSANNA ASHTON
    The remarkable story of the man behind the book that helped spark the Civil War, in a stunning historical detective story “I love this research.” —Henry Louis Gates Jr., at a Hutchins Center presentation of Susanna Ashton’s findings In December of 1850, a faculty wife in Brunswick, Maine, named Harriet Beecher Stowe hid a fugitive slave in her house. While John Andrew Jackson s...

    $514.00

  • PROTECT YOUR PEOPLE
    RAJ JAYADEV
    Shortlisted, 2025 Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice An eye-opening look at “participatory defense,” the innovative practice that allows the loved ones of those charged with crimes to help influence the outcome of court cases, by the MacArthur Award–winning activist The courthouse is an important part of every story of mass incarceration in America an...

    $319.00

  • ON CUBA
    NOAM CHOMSKY / VIJAY PRASHAD
    An intimate conversation between towering public intellectuals examining the contentious interplay between the Cuban Revolution and U.S. empire An audacious revolutionary experiment in the backyard of empire, Cuba has occupied a vexed role in the international order for decades. Though its doctors (and fighters)—and the outsized influence of its example—have traversed the globe...

    $444.00