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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY, AND AMAZON BESTSELLER America’s most effective conservative intellectual proves once and for all that Marxist radicals have taken over our nation's institutions.In the 1960s, Mao launched China’s Cultural...

"One of the most brilliant thought leaders I have been able to share space with."—Jonathan van Ness, from the foreword"The must-read memoir of fall 2023."—Them"Powerful and vital."—Madeline Miller, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Song of...

A visual guide to how the world really works, through stunning infographics and data visualisations, thoroughly revised, recalculated and reimagined for this new edition. We are overwhelmed by information – from our phones, our televisions, our...

In March 2020, schools and childcare centres across Australia were forced to close to control the spread of the recently arrived novel coronavirus (COVID-19). Families and carers suddenly had to adjust to long periods of home-schooling, disparities in...

Australia's higher education sector was hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic. Student and staff numbers declined, and the government assistance afforded to other sectors was all but missing for universities. In a callous example of abandonment in an hour of...

The animal agriculture industry, like other profit-driven industries, aggressively seeks to shield itself from public scrutiny and uses a distinct set of rhetorical strategies to deflect criticism. These tactics are fundamental to modern animal...

“Encouraging…Uplifting...Meeting apparently insurmountable goals requires thinking big…this will inspire.” —Publishers Weekly“Raj Shah has written a practical guide to making the world a better place. He knows what he’s talking about, because he’s done...

The science is conclusive: to avoid irreversible climate collapse, the burning of all fossil fuels will have to end in the next decade. In this concise and highly readable intervention, Ashley Dawson sets out what is required to make this momentous...

AMERICAN DEMOCRACY IS AT RISK"No one-conservative or liberal-should be comfortable with a few Silicon Valleyoligarchs having a monopoly over the marketplace of ideas, and with it, democracy itself." - Senator Ted CruzWhen the Founding Fathers drafted our...

A compelling portrayal by the veteran journalist of the lives of farming communities on either side of the U.S.-Mexico border and the surprising connections between them100% DemocracyWinner of the Studs and Ida Terkel AwardIn the Midwest, Mexican workers...

The 40th anniversary edition of an American classic: a "minority student" pays the cost of social assimilation and academic success with a painful alienation-from his past, his parents, his culture. Exquisitely written, poignant and powerful, unsettling...

A synthesis of more than three decades of interdisciplinary research and practice, Agroecology and Regenerative Agriculture: An Evidence-based Guide to Sustainable Solutions for Hunger, Poverty, and Climate Change, provides evidence-based solutions to...

Why most Americans' finances improved during the worst economic contraction since the Great Depression-and the policy choices that made this possibleIn March 2020, economic and social life across the United States came to an abrupt halt as the country...

A humanist manifesto for the age of AI.Artificial intelligence may be the most transformative technology of our time. As AI's power grows, so does the need to figure out what - and who - this technology is really for. AI Needs You argues that it is...

The postwar United States enjoyed large, widely distributed economic rewards - and most Americans accepted that taxes were a reasonable price to pay for living in a society of shared prosperity. Then in 1978 California enacted Proposition 13, a property...

Why it's time to enshrine the right to vote in the ConstitutionThroughout history, too many Americans have been disenfranchised or faced needless barriers to voting. Part of the blame falls on the Constitution, which does not contain an affirmative right...

Over two million individuals are behind bars in US prisons, living in isolation from their families and their communities. Prison/Culture investigates the culture of incarceration as an integral part of the American experience through a compilation of...

Despite the renewed interest in the impact of migration upon economic development in general, remarkably few studies have taken up the ways in which the geographic flows of labor impact capital accumulation itself. Capital Accumulation and Migration...

America Besieged deals with the underlying forces within U.S. society that deeply affect our lives. Showing how we are being misled and harmed by those who profess to have our interests at heart, Michael Parenti writes: "We are indeed a nation besieged,...

A novel perspective on monetary and fiscal policy that views money as the equity capital of a nationA conventional economic theory, monetarism, holds that inflation is a monetary phenomenon driven by changes in the supply of money. Yet recent experience...

Culture and power have been bedfellows since ancient times. But now, more than ever, exhibits and the organisations responsible for them have become part of our troubled politics. Protests force out problematic patrons and curators, and pressure museums...

An eloquent and passionate call for educational reparations, from the New York Times bestselling authorWhen Jonathan Kozol'sDeath at an Early Ageappeared in 1967, it rocked the education world. Based on the Rhodes Scholar's first year of teaching in...

A Ms. Magazine Most Anticipated Book A devastating investigation into the "corporate poverty complex"-the myriad businesses that profit from the poor Poverty is big business in America. The federal government spends about $900 billion a year on programs...

With a new afterword by the authorsA powerful, intimate collection of conversations with Indigenous Americans on the climate crisis and the Earth's futureAlthough for a great many people, the human impact on the Earth-countless species becoming extinct,...

A chilling expos of the inhumane and lucrative sharpening of borders around the globe through experimental surveillance technologyIn 2022, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced it was training 'robot dogs' to help secure...

The United States, Taiwan, and China are bound within a "silicon triangle." Semiconductors link our geopolitics, our ongoing economic prosperity, and our technological competitiveness. This book draws on the deliberations of a multidisciplinary Hoover...

The border regimes of imperialist states have brutally oppressed migrants throughout the world. To enforce their borders, these states have constructed a new digital fortress with far-reaching and ever-evolving new technologies. This pathbreaking volume...

America is undergoing an ethical revolution involving the industrial treatment of farm animals. This book tells its stories from midwestern slaughterhouses to the halls of Capitol Hill to Ivy League universities and Silicon Valley laboratories. This is a...

Nonfiction Book Awards Silver Winner IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award Silver Winner Nautilus Book Awards Silver Winner American Book Fest Awards Finalist Book Excellence Awards FinalistBrooklyn Goes Home is the true story of how one greyhound sparked a...

Systemic Islamophobia in Canada presents critical perspectives on systemic Islamophobia in Canadian politics, law, and society, and maps areas for future research and inquiry. The authors consist of both scholars and professionals who encounter in the...

How cable television upended American political life in the pursuit of profits and influenceAs television began to overtake the political landscape in the 1960s, network broadcast companies, bolstered by powerful lobbying interests, dominated screens...

Leading thinkers on the policies and leadership of the Morrison Government from 2019 to 2022Australia has rarely endured as many difficulties as it did during the COVID-19 pandemic-dominated Morrison Government's term of office, from its surprise 2019...

An acclaimed examination of how the American political system favors the wealthy-now fully revised and expandedThe first edition of Unequal Democracy was an instant classic, shattering illusions about American democracy and spurring scholarly and popular...

How businesses and other organizations can improve their performance by tapping the power of differences in how people thinkWhat if workforce diversity is more than simply the right thing to do? What if it can also improve the bottom line? It can. The...

Will our past imitate our future?"The purpose of this book is threefold: to explain what makes civilisation civilization what it is; to show what we are in danger of losing in the event of collapse, and to point the way toward renewal."There is a...

Eminent scholar-activist Neil Davidson's brilliance is on full display in this posthumous work, a timely and prescient introduction to the neoliberal era.While it is widely agreed that neoliberalism arose in the wake of the global economic crisis of the...

A definitive reframing of the economic, institutional, and intellectual history of the managerial era.The twentieth century was the managerial century in the United States. An organisational transformation, from entrepreneurial to managerial capitalism,...

An eye-opening look at the source of the current wave of Saudi Arabian-sponsored terrorism, how it spread, and why the West did nothing. Here is the truth about ISIS, al-Qaeda, Boko Haram, and more. Lifting the mask of international terrorism, Terence...

The diminutive co-founder of Code Pink has become famous for fearlessly tackling head-on subjects the left and right studiously avoid. Sometimes, she does so in person--as at President Obama's speech at the National Defense College, or in Egypt, where...

Slicing through blunt theories of supply and demand, Callon presents a rigorously researched but counterintuitive model of how everyday market activity gets produced.If you're convinced you know what a market is, think again. In his long-awaited study,...

A prize-winning examination of why nation-states wall themselves off despite widespread proclamations of global connectedness.Why do walls marking national boundaries proliferate amid widespread proclamations of global connectedness and despite...

'Where is home, Mum?' From the foothills of the Himalayas in the Kashmiri valleys to bustling Green Street in East London, Sabba Khan researches her identity from the global to the local, covering partition, displacement, and clothing choices for an...

A global energy revolution is unfolding before our eyes: ever-growing numbers of electric vehicles on our roads, laptops that last all day on a single charge and solar panels on our roofs, all reliant on lithium-ion batteries. This revolution is...

Natural gas pricing should be as critically important to the general public as it is to industry specialists. Pricing is the basis of balancing the interests of European and Asian consumers of power and electricity with those of the limited number of...

The story of the women, financiers, and other unsung figures who helped to shape the post-Napoleonic global orderIn 1814, after decades of continental conflict, an alliance of European empires captured Paris and exiled Napoleon Bonaparte, defeating...

After the 1993 Oslo Accords, a handful of Palestinians were allowed to return to their hometowns in Israel. Fida Jiryis and her family were among them.This beautifully written memoir tells the story of their journey, which is also the story of Palestine,...

The story of how economic reasoning came to dominate Washington between the 1960s and 1980s - and why it continues to constrain progressive ambitions today.For decades, Democratic politicians have frustrated progressives by tinkering around the margins...

A history of money, an examination of what's gone wrong and the ideas which would put people back in charge. Bankers and speculators build castles in the air but when they come crashing down ordinary people have to pick up the tab. How we've made such a...