The New Press: 370 books
Lower Ed
The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
**“The best book yet on the complex lives and choices of for-profit students.”
—The New York Times Book Review
As featured on The Daily Show, NPR’s Marketplace, and Fresh Air, the “powerful, chilling tale” (Carol Anderson, author of White Rage) of higher education becoming an engine...
Why School?
Reclaiming Education for All of Us
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Why School? is a little book driven by big questions. What does it mean to be educated? What is intelligence? How should we think about intelligence, education, and opportunity in an open society? Drawing on forty years of teaching and research and "a profound understanding of the opportunities,...
The End of the Rainbow
How Educating for Happiness-Not Money-Would Transform Our Schools
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
Amid the hype of Race to the Top, online experiments such as Khan Academy, and bestselling books like The Sandbox Investment, we seem to have drawn a line that leads from nursery school along a purely economic route, with money as the final stop. But what price do we all pay for the increasingly singular...
The Age of Dignity
Preparing for the Elder Boom in a Changing America
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
One of Time’s 100 most influential people “shines a new light on the need for a holistic approach to caregiving in America . . . Timely and hopeful” (Maria Shriver).
In The Age of Dignity, thought leader and activist Ai-jen Poo offers a wake-up call about the statistical reality that...
Integration Nation
Immigrants, Refugees, and America at Its Best
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
“Eaton has done invaluable work in documenting the revitalization of communities across the U.S. by immigrants and refugees” (David Bacon, author of Illegal People).
In recent years, politicians in a handful of local communities and states have passed laws and regulations designed to make...
Rich Media, Poor Democracy
Communication Politics in Dubious Times
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
An updated edition of the “penetrating study” examining how the current state of mass media puts our democracy at risk (Noam Chomsky).
What happens when a few conglomerates dominate all major aspects of mass media, from newspapers and magazines to radio and broadcast television? After all...
Sleepwalking to Armageddon
The Threat of Nuclear Annihilation
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Leading Nuclear Experts: The contributors are high-profile figures in their field, who will be able to promote the book.
World-renowned, best-selling author: Caldicott is an internationally renowned anti-nuclear advocate, with a loyal following of anti-nuclear and environmental activists. Her...
A New Leaf
The End of Cannabis Prohibition
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
Two award-winning journalists offer a “cogent, well-sourced and ambitious analysis of the slow decline of cannabis prohibition in the United States” (Kirkus Reviews).
In November 2012, voters in Colorado and Washington passed landmark measures to legalize the production and sale of cannabis...
The Climate Swerve
Reflections on Mind, Hope, and Survival
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Media track record: Lifton's books have received major review attention and he has been interviewed by the likes of Bill Moyers, Terry Gross and Amy Goodman.
Platform: This book began as an op-ed essay in the New York Times, a publication he has been a regular contributor for many years, contributing...
Understanding Mass Incarceration
A People's Guide to the Key Civil Rights Struggle of Our Time
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
We all know that orange is the new black and mass incarceration is the new Jim Crow, but how much do we actually know about the structure, goals, and impact of our criminal justice system? Understanding Mass Incarceration offers the first comprehensive overview of the incarceration apparatus put in...
by Henning Mankell
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
A small-town murder leads to international intrigue in this “first-class thriller” from the New York Times–bestselling master of Scandinavian crime (The New York Times Book Review).
Inspector Kurt Wallander returns in the second of Henning Mankell’s award-winning, internationally-bestselling...
The Shadow Girls
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
From the New York Times–bestselling author: A story of one man’s awakening and “a heartfelt reminder of the many people whose struggles are never known” (The Plain Dealer).
Jesper Humlin, a poet of middling acclaim and underwhelming book sales, is facing a crisis. His boy-wonder stockbroker...
by Immanuel Wallerstein
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
The internationally renowned theorist contends that the sun is setting on the American empire in this “lucid, informed, and insightful” account (The New York Times).
The United States currently finds itself [a] superpower that lacks true power, a world leader nobody follows and few respect,...
Will the Circle Be Unbroken?
Reflections on Death, Rebirth, and Hunger for a Faith
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
The renowned oral historian interviews ordinary people about facing mortality: “It’s the unguarded voices he presents that stay with you.” —The New York Times
In this book, the Pulitzer Prize winner and National Book Award finalist Studs Terkel, author of the New York Times bestseller...