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A member of Mexico's privileged upper class, yet still subordinated because of her gender, Rosario Castellanos became one of Latin America's most influential feminist social critics. Joanna O'Connell here offers the first book-length study of all Castellanos' prose writings, focusing specifically on...

“[A] merciless but often humorous look at the shortcomings of American politics” by the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Parliament of Whores (Booklist). Don’t Vote: It Just Encourages the Bastards is a brilliant, disturbing, hilarious, and sobering look at why politics and politicians...

Based on the author's experiences as a serving soldier and European Commission Monitor, a narrative account of the civil war in the former YugoslaviaBrendan O'Shea had access to both EU and UN official documents for his research and used these to unravel the complex story of the Bosnian war. He...

Feared by conservatives and embraced by liberals when he entered the White House, Barack Obama has since been battered by criticism from both sides. In Out of Many, One, Ruth O’Brien explains why. We are accustomed to seeing politicians supporting either a minimalist state characterized by unfettered...

The story of Ireland's bloody and doomed rebellion of 1798. The 1798 Rebellion forms a central part of the narrative of modern Irish History. It marks at once the formation of a unified catholic and protestant movement for independence and the beginning of the end for the home rule experiment...

It started with the Occupy Wall Street movement and then spread across the world. Everyone was sick of the greed of the rich and powerful, sick of financial disaster caused by people who then received massive salaries for their incompetence. The world changed rapidly, this time it was the western world that underwent a revolution, and much needed controls were placed on capitalism.

Three years ago the world plunged into an economic recession. Unemployment soared, countries struggled to pay their bills and businesses went broke. But not in one country. Australia didn't have a recession, unemployment remained low and business sailed along smoothly. Why? How did they emerge with the highest minimum wages in the western world.

Featuring a new preface and afterword by the author From the host of MSNBC’s The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell, the riveting story of a 1975 police shooting of an unarmed black man in Boston—one of the first to draw national headlines—and the dramatic investigation and court case...

Named a Best Poetry Book of 2017 by the New York Times Book Review, Sun in Days is “O’Rourke’s most ravishing and brilliant collection yet” (Cathy Park Hong). From acclaimed poet and critic Meghan O’Rourke comes a powerful collection about the frailty of the body, the longing for...

Stop to think about this one simple little fact. Our species exists only on the Earth - we have all our eggs in the one basket. One simple mishap could wipe out all of humankind, every single moment of our existence would become worthless overnight. Or we could show some intelligence and actually...

A story that garnered national attention, this is the harrowing tale of two men who suffered abuses at a reform school in Florida in the 1950s and 60s, and who banded together fifty years later to confront their attackers. Michael O'McCarthy and Robert W. Straley were teens when they were termed...

**A Library Journal Best Book of 2015 ** **A Christian Science Monitor Top Ten Book of September** In a world dominated by people and rapid climate change, species large and small are increasingly vulnerable to extinction. In Resurrection Science, journalist M. R. O'Connor explores the extreme...

The fourth volume of Kevin J. O'Conner's love notes to the days of the week, a unique slant on the act of 'journaling'. What began as an expression of frustration on a very Monday-like Monday has grown into an ongoing series now in its fifth year. Each day, O'Conner writes a 'love note' to...

Award-winning edition of this outstanding translation of Brian Merriman's eighteenth-century erotic masterpiece. Translated by Frank O'Connor Illustrations by Brian Bourke.