The New Press: 370 books
Unchecked And Unbalanced
Presidential Power in a Time of Terror
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
Thirty years after the Church Committee unearthed COINTELPRO and other instances of illicit executive behavior on the domestic and international fronts, the Bush administration has elevated the flaws identified by the committee into first principles of government.
Through a constellation of...
Burning Down the House
The End of Juvenile Prison
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
When teenagers scuffle during a basketball game, they are typically benched. But when Will got into it on the court, he and his rival were sprayed in the face at close range by a chemical similar to Mace, denied a shower for twenty-four hours, and then locked in solitary confinement for a month.
One...
Blue in a Red State
The Survival Guide to Life in the Real America
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Imagine if you felt out of step with every other member of the parent association at your kid’s school, your quilting circle, or even your workout group. What if casual conversations revolved around Fox News and the decline of American values? How would you feel if you were afraid to put a political...
Fires in the Middle School Bathroom
Advice for Teachers from Middle Schoolers
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2009
The highly anticipated sequel to the bestselling Fires in the Bathroom—filled with practical, honest advice from middle school students to their teachers
Following on the heels of the bestselling Fires in the Bathroom, which brought the insights of high school students to teachers and parents,...
by Romesh Gunesekera
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
As a teenager from Sri Lanka, Sunny is living the typical life of an expatriate in 1970s Manila—a privileged, carefree existence—until one day when the secret behind his mother’s tragic death years earlier is accidentally revealed to him, turning Sunny’s world upside down. His life takes a...
Hypercapitalism
The Modern Economy, Its Values, and How to Change Them
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
PAPERBACK ORIGINAL From the bestselling cartoonist of The Cartoon History of the Universe comes an explosive graphic takedown of capitalism
Bestselling “overeducated cartoonist” Larry Gonick has delighted readers for years with sharp, digestible, and funny accounts of everything from the...
A Mouth Is Always Muzzled
Six Dissidents, Five Continents, and the Art of Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Builds on the success of When We Fight We Win: Highlights art activism and strategies of resistance.
Perfect for the present moment: Explores the important role of art in hostile political regimes, demonstrating the significance of art and social change.
Beautifully-written, powerful...
Kindergarten
A Teacher, Her Students, and a Year of Learning
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
“[Diamond] has captured the world of the class—at times chaotic, always busy, usually inspired”— Essential reading for parents and teachers alike (Los Angeles Times).
Hailed by renowned educator Deborah Meier as “a rare and special pleasure to read,” Kindergarten explores a year...
Witness Against the Beast
William Blake and the Moral Law
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
Witness Against the Beast is a groundbreaking interdisciplinary study in which the renowned social historian E.P. Thompson contends that most of the assumptions scholars have made about William Blake are misleading and unfounded. Brilliantly reexamining Blake’s cultural milieu and intellectual background,...
Annapolis Autumn
Life, Death, And Literature At The U.S. Naval Academy
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
What really goes on behind the wall that surrounds the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis? What are all those midshipmen, future officers in the U.S. Naval and Marine Corps and leaders of our society, thinking as they stand in neat ranks at the parades beloved by tourists? What are their professors...
The Lost Education of Horace Tate
Uncovering the Hidden Heroes Who Fought for Justice in Schools
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
**A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2018
An important contribution to our understanding of how ordinary people found the strength to fight for equality for schoolchildren and their teachers.”
-Wall Street Journal
In the epic tradition of Eyes on the Prize and with the cultural significance...
Here Come the Dogs
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
A “brilliant [novel] . . . Immediate and compelling, this one deserves a place on the shelf next to Trainspotting or The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test**” (Cleaver Magazine).**
In small-town suburban Australia, three young men from three different ethnic backgrounds—one Samoan, one Macedonian,...
Love Unites Us
Winning the Freedom to Marry in America
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Firsthand accounts from the attorneys and advocates who brought the historic cases and fought to secure the freedom to marry for same-sex couples.
The June 2015 decision in Obergefell v. Hodges was a sweeping victory for the freedom to marry, but it was one step in a long process. Love Unites...
Radicalization
Why Some People Choose the Path of Violence
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
In the wake of the Paris, Beirut, and San Bernardino terrorist attacks, fears over homegrown terrorism” have surfaced to a degree not seen since September 11, 2001—especially following the news that all of the perpetrators in Paris were European citizens. A sought-after commentator in France...