Melville House imprint: 317 books
Habeas Data
Privacy vs. the Rise of Surveillance Tech
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
A book about what the Cambridge Analytica scandal shows: That surveillance and data privacy is every citizens’ concern
An important look at how 50 years of American privacy law is inadequate for the today's surveillance technology, from acclaimed Ars Technica senior business editor Cyrus...
English Uprising
Brexit and the Mainstreaming of the Far-Right
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2017
In this timely and important book, Paul Stocker examines how ideas of the far right - always a fringe movement in Britain - have become part of the cultural and political mainstream after Brexit. He explores the noxious right-wing press and how it it pushing far-right values, and how these issues...
Dragons in Diamond Village
Tales of Resistance from Urbanizing China
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
“David Bandurski is a modern-day Marco Polo taking us into the heart of new China.” —Kevin Sites, author of In the Hot Zone
China’s explosive modernization has led to a unique phenomenon: voraciously-growing cities absorbing formerly distant villages that become tenement communities.
Dragons...
Cause
. . . And How It Doesn't Always Equal Effect
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
The Freakonomics of the sociology world. This book shows how deeply irrational we humans are, and what we can do about it
When we try to understand our world, we ask “why?” a specific event occured. But this profoundly human question often leads us astray. In Cause, sociologist Gregory...
The Dog Walker
An Anarchist's Encounters with the Good, the Bad, and the Canine
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
A dog book for the 99%, The Dog Walker is a hugely entertaining look at the world’s greatest job—by an activist who spent a decade as a dog walker for the political class
Dog walking: it’s every eight-year-old’s dream! You spend your day outdoors; you interact exclusively with silly, loving,...
by C.D. Rose
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
A hilariously charming novel about a heartbroken man trying to redeem himself by championing forgotten books
Fleeing heartbreak, an unnamed author goes to an unnamed city to give a series of lectures at an unnamed university about forgotten books ... only to find himself involved in a mystery...
Bonsai
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012
"Winner of Chile’s Literary Critics’ Award for Best Novel"
Hailed as a great Latin American literary event, this stylistically innovative, elliptically told tale of a young man and his love who mysteriously disappears is, as the narrator tells us, “a simple story that becomes...
The Next Next Level
A Story of Rap, Friendship, and Almost Giving Up
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
In the tradition of Carl Wilson’s Let’s Talk About Love, an unforgettable account of fame, fandom, and the problem of making art in the twenty-first century
In his multi-hyphenate ambitions, the musician who calls himself Juiceboxxx couldn’t be more modern—you might call him a punk...
by Marek Hlasko
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
“History has no use for witnesses.”
When Marek Hłasko sent this novel to publishers in Poland in the mid-1950s, it was uniformly rejected. When he asked why, he was told: “This Poland doesn’t exist.”
Long out of print, The Graveyard is Hłasko’s portrait of a system built...
by Martin MacInnes
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
“Stunning—a totally original, surreal mystery shot through with hints of the best of César Aira, Vladimir Nabokov, Angela Carter, and Julio Cortázar. Smart, clever, and honest. I doubt you’ve read anything quite like it.” —Jeff VanderMeer, author of The Southern Reach trilogy
On...
Red or Dead
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
**A New York Times Editors' Choice
"[T]he stuff of great literature." —The New York Times | "Red or Dead is a winner." —The Washington Post**
The place where the swinging sixties started – Liverpool, England, birthplace of the Beatles – wasn’t so swinging....
The Invisible Killer
The Rising Global Threat of Air Pollution - and How We Can Fight Back
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2018
More than 90% of the world's population is exposed to air pollutant concentrations exceeding World Health Organisation guideline levels. Having air that is healthy to breathe is one of the greatest challenges of the 21st Century. Some of this is unfinished business from the last 60 years, but as more...
The Consequential Frontier
Challenging the Privatization of Space
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2019
This in-depth work of reportage dares to ask what’s at stake in privatizing outer space
Earth is in trouble—so dramatically that we’re now scrambling to explore space for valuable resources and a home for permanent colonization. With the era of NASA’s dominance now behind us, the private...
The Geography of Madness
Penis Thieves, Voodoo Death, and the Search for the Meaning of the World's Strangest Syndromes
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
Why do some men become convinced—despite what doctors tell them—that their penises have, simply, disappeared. Why do people across the world become convinced that they are cursed to die on a particular date—and then do? Why do people in Malaysia suddenly “run amok”?
In The Geography...