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Startling side-by-side portraits of victims and perpetrators of apartheid, by an award-winning South African photographer. Jillian Edelstein made her first visit to a South African Truth and Reconc...

A beautifully packaged book of spiritual ruminations with a progressive political edge, from the incomparable Pulitzer Prize-winner—a woman who has devoted her life to befriending the earth.Fr...

Before Yertle, before the Cat in the Hat, before Little Cindy-Lou Who (but after Mulberry Street), Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel) made his living as a political cartoonist for New York newspaper PM. ...

The world-renowned antinuclear activist's myth-busting look at the real costs and consequences of nuclear energy."Dr. Caldicott is one of the most articulate and passionate advocates of citizen act...

The searing story of one man's years inside the notorious American prison—and his Kafkaesque struggle to clear his name."Under the hood I felt I couldn't breathe properly….Flashing lights...

Two of the twentieth century's most influential thinkers debate a perennial question.In 1971, at the height of the Vietnam War and at a time of great political and social instability, two of the w...

The American criminal-justice system, writes Georgetown law professor David Cole, has effectively become a two-tiered system, with differing levels of regard depending on the race or class of a giv...

An eye-opening look at Big Pharma's unethical and exploitative drug trials in the global South."Medical research imposes burdens. But generally speaking, we don't like to know it….If the histo...

From the floor of American gun shows, a fascinating historical exposé of how guns have burrowed into the heart of American democracy."To understand gun talk, I had to understand what America means...

In the past few years, a new generation of progressive intellectuals has dramatically transformed how law, race, and racial power are understood and discussed in America. Questioning the old assump...