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From a renowned activist and author, a powerful expose of how the tipping system has been used to exploit immigrant workers.

New Press track record with Zinn: The abridged version of A People's History of the United States, published by The New Press, has sold over 117,000 copies.Based on a bestselling, classic work of history: A People's History of the United States has sold over 2 million copies and continues to be one of the most successful history books of all time. Even in death, Howard Zinn remains one of America's most popular and beloved historians. His A People's History of the United States is part of the cultural fabric of the nation and features regularly in films, TV shows and in print media.Major anniversary: The book will publish on August 2, 2022, in anticipation of Zinn's 100th birthday on August 24. Major publications are sure to be doing retrospectives on Zinn's work during this month and the book will tie in perfectly.New, compelling package: We will publish the paperback with an inviting cover illustration of the young Zinn to appeal to a younger audience. Reader feedback indicated enthusiasm for the work as an "introduction to Zinn," and positioning will reflect that.Connections to education orgs: Teaching for Change, the Zinn Education Project, and HowardZinn.org are all excited to spread the word about the paperback edition of Truth Has a Power of Its Own.Media opportunities: As a host of World Affairs, Ray Suarez is well-connected to the world of radio and will be able to speak on the book. He appeared on "On Contact" with Chris Hedges to promote the hardcover edition.

The extraordinary story of how Georgia State University tore up the rulebook for educating lower-income students.

Today's leading economists weigh in with a new "e;dashboard"e; of metrics for measuring our economic and social health"e;What we measure affects what we do. If we focus only on material well-being-on, say, the production of goods, rather than on health, education, and the environment-we become distorted in the same way that these measures are distorted."e;-Joseph E. StiglitzA consensus has emerged among key experts that our conventional economic measures are out of sync with how most people live their lives. GDP, they argue, is a poor and outmoded measure of our well-being.The global movement to move beyond GDP has attracted some of the world's leading economists, statisticians, and social thinkers who have worked collectively to articulate new approaches to measuring economic well-being and social progress. In the decade since the 2008 economic crisis, these experts have come together to determine what indicators can actually tell us about people's lives.In the first book of its kind, leading economists from around the world, including Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez, Elizabeth Beasely, Jacob Hacker, Franois Bourguignon, Nora Lustig, Alan B. Krueger, and Joseph E. Stiglitz, describe a range of fascinating metrics-from economic insecurity and environmental sustainability to inequality of opportunity and levels of trust and resilience-that can be used to supplement the simplistic measure of gross domestic product, providing a far more nuanced and accurate account of societal health and well-being.This groundbreaking volume is sure to provide a major source of ideas and inspiration for one of the most important intellectual movements of our time.

2018 Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Legacy Award (Nonfiction) FinalistA timely indictment of the corporate takeover of education and the privatizationand profitabilityof separate and unequal schools, published at a critical time in the dismantling of public education in AmericaPublic schools are among America's greatest achievements in modern history, yet from the earliest days of tax-supported educationtoday a sector with an estimated budget of over half a billion dollarsthere have been intractable tensions tied to race and poverty. Now, in an era characterized by levels of school segregation the country has not seen since the mid-twentieth century, cultural critic and American studies professor Noliwe Rooks provides a trenchant analysis of our separate and unequal schools and argues that profiting from our nation's failure to provide a high-quality education to all children has become a very big business. Cutting School deftly traces the financing of segregated education in America, from reconstruction through Brown v. Board of Education up to the current controversies around school choice, teacher quality, the school-to-prison pipeline, and more, to elucidate the course we are on today: the wholesale privatization of our schools. Rooks's incisive critique breaks down the fraught landscape of ';segrenomics,' showing how experimental solutions to the so-called achievement gapsincluding charters, vouchers, and cyber schoolsrely on, profit from, and ultimately exacerbate disturbingly high levels of racial and economic segregation under the guise of providing equal opportunity. Rooks chronicles the making and unmaking of public education and the disastrous impact of funneling public dollars to private for-profit and nonprofit operations. As the infrastructure crumbles, a number of major U.S. cities are poised to permanently dismantle their public school systemsthe very foundation of our multicultural democracy. Yet Rooks finds hope and promise in the inspired individuals and powerful movements fighting to save urban schools. A comprehensive, compelling account of what's truly at stake in the relentless push to deregulate and privatize, Cutting School is a cri de coeur for all of us to resist educational apartheid in America.

A stellar group of America's leading political thinkers explore how to reboot US democracy.

A moving portrait of a group of queer East Africans who fled their home countries for the United States.

A first-of-its kind collection of the most vivid reporting about the most lethal addiction crisis ever.

A groundbreaking expose about the use of rap lyrics to convict and incarcerate young men of colour.

A definitive account from a leading expert on the nature of cults and those who are susceptible.

A collaboration between a National Book Award winning journalist and a prize-winning photographer on the queer-resistance theater troupe

A well-known veteran DC insider shows how the left can undo the right's damage and take America back.

A devastating critique of free-market politics from distinguished sociologist Pierre Bourdieu.

A completely revised edition of James W. Loewen's classic retelling of American history, based on six new textbooks and including an all-new chapter on the recent pastSince its first publication in 1995, Lies My Teacher Told Me has gone on to win an American Book Award and the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship, and has sold over a million copies in its various editions.What started out as a survey of the twelve leading American history textbooks has ended up being what the San Francisco Chronicle calls "e;an extremely convincing plea for truth in education."e; In Lies My Teacher Told Me, James W. Loewen brings history alive in all its complexity and ambiguity. Beginning with pre-Columbian history and ranging over characters and events as diverse as Reconstruction, Helen Keller, the first Thanksgiving, and the My Lai massacre, Loewen offers an eye-opening critique of existing textbooks, and a wonderful retelling of American history as it shouldand couldbe taught to American students.This new edition also features a handsome new cover and a new introduction by the author.

A New York Timesbestselling author looks at mathematics education in Americawhen it's worthwhile, and when it's not. Why do we inflict a full menu of mathematicsalgebra, geometry, trigonometry, even calculuson all young Americans, regardless of their interests or aptitudes? While Andrew Hacker has been a professor of mathematics himself, and extols the glories of the subject, he also questions some widely held assumptions in this thought-provoking and practical-minded book. Does advanced math really broaden our minds? Is mastery of azimuths and asymptotes needed for success in most jobs? Should the entire Common Core syllabus be required of every student? Hacker worries that our nation's current frenzied emphasis on STEM is diverting attention from other pursuits and even subverting the spirit of the country. Here, he shows how mandating math for everyone prevents other talents from being developed and acts as an irrational barrier to graduation and careers. He proposes alternatives, including teaching facility with figures, quantitative reasoning, and understanding statistics. Expanding upon the author's viral New York Times op-ed, The Math Mythis sure to spark a heated and needed national conversationnot just about mathematics but about the kind of people and society we want to be. ';Hacker's accessible arguments offer plenty to think about and should serve as a clarion call to students, parents, and educators who decry the one-size-fits-all approach to schooling.' Publishers Weekly, starred review

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERDespite the abundant evidence from Obama's victories proving that the U.S. population has fundamentally changed, many progressives and Democrats continue to waste millions of dollars chasing white swing voters. Explosive population growth of people of color in America over the past fifty years has laid the foundation for a New American Majority consisting of progressive people of color (23 percent of all eligible voters) and progressive whites (28 percent of all eligible voters). These two groups make up 51 percent of all eligible voters in America right now, and that majority is growing larger every day. Failing to properly appreciate this reality, progressives are at risk of missing this moment in history-and losing.A leader in national politics for thirty years, Steve Phillips has had a front-row seat to these extraordinary political changes. A civil rights lawyer and a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, Phillips draws on his extensive political experience to unveil exactly how people of color and progressive whites add up to a new majority, and what this means for U.S. politics and policy. A book brimming with urgency and hope, Brown Is the New White exposes how far behind the curve Democrats are in investing in communities of color-while illuminating a path forward to seize the opportunity created by the demographic revolution

The best single-volume history of the Revolution I have read.Howard ZinnThe first major effort to tell the history of the American Revolution from the often overlooked standpoints of its everyday participants, A Peoples History of the American Revolution is a highly accessible narrative of the wartime experience that brings in the stories of previously marginalized voices: the common people, slave and free, who made up the majority in eighteenth-century America.This first volume in The New Press Peoples History Series skillfully weaves diaries, personal letters, and other long-overlooked primary source material into the historical narrative. The result is a remarkable first-person perspective on the events leading up to and during the war. With a simple shift of the focus of historys lensaway from Revolutionary leaders such as George Washington and Thomas Jefferson and on to the slaves they owned, the Indians they displaced, and the men and boys who did the fightingauthor Ray Raphael brings us a true peoples history of the Revolutionary experience.

A helicopter ride to visit troops in the Afghanistan war zone, a tense meeting with the newly elected Prime Minister, and...a wild boar hunt! Eleni Kounalakis was forty-three and a land developer in Sacramento, California, when she was tapped by President Barack Obama to serve as the U.S. ambassador to Hungary under Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. During her tenure, from 2010 to 2013, Hungary was a key ally in the U.S. military surge, held elections in which a center-right candidate gained a two-thirds supermajority and rewrote the country's constitution, and grappled with the rise of Hungarian nationalism and anti-semitism.The first Greek-American woman ever to serve as a U.S. ambassador, Kounalakis recounts her training at the State Department's "charm school” and her three years of diplomatic life in Budapest—from protocols about seating, salutations, and embassy security to what to do when the deposed King of Greece hands you a small chocolate crown (eat it, of course!). A cross between a foreign policy memoir and an inspiring personal family story—her immigrant Greek father went from agricultural day laborer to land developer and major Democratic party activist—Madam Ambassador draws back the curtain on what it is like to represent the U.S. government abroad as well as how American embassies around the world function.

An accessible reader collating previously classified NSA documents relating to the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, when the world came perilously close to nuclear war.

In February of 2008, amid the looming global financial crisis, President Nicolas Sarkozy of France asked Nobel Prize-winning economists Joseph Stiglitz and Amartya Sen, along with the distinguished French economist Jean Paul Fitoussi, to establish a commission of leading economists to study whether Gross Domestic Product (GDP)-the most widely used measure of economic activity-is a reliable indicator of economic and social progress. The Commission was given the further task of laying out an agenda for developing better measures.Mismeasuring Our Lives is the result of this major intellectual effort, one with pressing relevance for anyone engaged in assessing how and whether our economy is serving the needs of our society. The authors offer a sweeping assessment of the limits of GDP as a measurement of the well-being of societies-considering, for example, how GDP overlooks economic inequality (with the result that most people can be worse off even though average income is increasing); and does not factor environmental impacts into economic decisions.In place of GDP, Mismeasuring Our Lives introduces a bold new array of concepts, from sustainable measures of economic welfare, to measures of savings and wealth, to a "green GDP." At a time when policymakers worldwide are grappling with unprecedented global financial and environmental issues, here is an essential guide to measuring the things that matter.

Nations worry about their shrinking sovereignty as large numbers of immigrants cross borders at will. This collection of essays asks if globalization is killing off the nation state.

An illuminating documentary history that reveals the effects of US military ventures on more than 100 years of American life.

Noted graphic artist Rudahl delivers this retelling of the famous 20th-century anarchist and radical icon Emma Goldmans extraordinary life, in a graphic biography that embodies the richness and drama of Goldmans story in a wholly original way. Older teens.

A colletction of correspondence, personal testimonies and official transcripts documenting the history of emancipation in the United States. Edited by legendary author Ira Berlin.