הוצאת New Press, The
הספרים של הוצאת New Press, The
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The art contained in this portfolio--all from the renowned Chandler-Pohrt Collection--includes colorful men's and women's clothing, buckskin and porcupine quill bags, woven sashes, jewelry, smoking pipes, and other decorative and ceremonial objects, all made between 1800 and 1920. The design and cra...
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Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do
מאת Studs Terkel
Studs Terkel records the voices of America. Men and women from every walk of life talk to him, telling him of their likes and dislikes, fears, problems, and happinesses on the job. Once again, Terkel has created a rich and unique document that is as simple as conversation, but as subtle and heartfel...
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Like its widely praised predecessor False Dawn, Two Faces of Liberalism, hailed by the Los Angeles Times as "elegant and powerful," offers a thoughtful and provocative analysis of the liberal tradition in politics. John Gray, an eminent professor at the London School of Economics, "pic...
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Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, a rollicking memoir of the legendary folklorist's journey into blues country.
The Land Where the Blues Began is Lomax's "singingly well-written cornbread-and-moonshine odyssey" (Kirkus Reviews) across America's musical heartland... |
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A new edition of the controversial "deathbed manuscript" attributed to Eva Perón.
In 1987, a document that appeared to be the long-lost deathbed manuscript of Eva Perón was found in a government archive in Buenos Aires. Rumor had it that the manuscript, which is critical of the Argen... |
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Jarvious Cotton's great-great-grandfather could not vote as a slave. His great-grandfather was beaten to death by the Klu Klux Klan for attempting to vote. His grandfather was prevented from voting by Klan intimidation; his father was barred by poll taxes and literacy tests. Today, Cotton cannot vot...
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A literary collection edited by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the "Children of Crisis" series.
Take notes. In the end, you will suffer alone. But at the beginning you suffer with a whole lot of other people.—Lorrie Moore, from A Life in Medicine A Life in Medici... |
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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 assumptions of both liberals and conservatives with respect to the goals and the means of traditional civil r...
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A Bomb in Every Issue: How the Short, Unruly Life of Ramparts Magazine Changed America
מאת Peter Richardson
What an incredible story Peter Richardson has told! Ramparts magazine turned the Sixties on its head with a high-octane combination of avant-garde satire and gumshoe investigative reporting. A Bomb in Every Issue is an excellent history that shouldn't be ignored. I can't recommend i...
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Three Kings: The Rise of an American Empire in the Middle East After World War II
מאת Lloyd C. Gardner
As American policy makers ponder a strategy for withdrawal from Iraq, one of our preeminent diplomatic historians uncovers the largely hidden story of how the United States got into the Middle East in the first place.
A breathtaking recovery of decisions taken, brazen motives, and backroom deali... |
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Unjust Deserts: How the Rich Are Taking Our Common Inheritance and Why We Should Take It Back
מאת Gar Alperovitz
Warren Buffett is worth nearly $50 billion. Does he “deserve” all this money? Buffett himself will tell you that “society is responsible for a very significant percentage of what I’ve earned.” Unjust Deserts offers an entirely new approach to the wealth question....
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E. P. Thompson was one of the most visionary and influential historians of the last century, acclaimed as the innovator of "history from below"--the immersion in the many details of everyday life, particularly among the working class, as a vital means of understanding the past and the patterns of hi...
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Asian Americans in the Twenty-first Century: Oral Histories of First- to Fourth-generation Americans from China, Japan, India, Korea, the Philippines, Vietnam, and Laos
מאת Joann Lee
A follow-up to the 1992 bestselling classic Asian Americans—with all-new interviews that brilliantly illuminate the vibrant, ever-changing communities of Asian America."Everybody thinks I'm crazy. They think a Japanese country singer can never make it in the U.S. But I followed my...
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A comprehensive charting of the global water industry.
In the next ten minutes, forty children around the world will have died because they didn't have enough clean water or sanitation facilities. In the world today, over a billion people lack safe drinking water. As tension mount... |
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War violates all Ten Commandments. There is no getting around this. How it does so is a matter of interpretation, but any honest reading of the list makes it hard to deny: God forbids war. --From Whose Gospel
In Whose Gospel?, one of America's greatest living preachers offers a ... |
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A small wonder of writing and humanity. --L'EXPRESS
Following his brilliant portrait of Maurice Ravel, Jean Echenoz turns to the life of one of the greatest runners of the twentieth century, and once again demonstrates his astonishing abilities as a prose stylist. Set against the backd... |
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In addition to being short-listed for the Guardian First Book Award upon publication in 2000, Frances Stonor Saunders's The Cultural Cold War was met with the kind of attention reserved for books that directly hit a cultural nerve. Impassioned reviews and features in major publications such a...
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The View from the Oak: The Private Worlds of Other Creatures (National Book Award for Children's Literature)
מאת Herbert R. Kohl
Attempts to enable us to view the world of ticks, flies, birds, jelly fish, and other animals through their senses, not our own....
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Dr. Seuss Goes to War: The World War II Editorial Cartoons of Theodor Seuss Geisel
מאת Richard H. Minear
The bestselling treasure trove of World War II political cartoons by Dr. Seuss. For decades, readers throughout the world have enjoyed the marvelous stories and illustrations of Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss. But few know the work Geisel did as a political cartoonist during World W...
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People's History of Sports in the United States: 250 Years of Politics, Protest, People, and Play (New Press People's History)
מאת Dave Zirin
In this long-awaited book from the rising superstar of sportswriting, whose blog “The Edge of Sports” is read each week by thousands of people across the country, Dave Zirin offers a riotously entertaining chronicle of larger-than-life sporting characters and dramatic contests and what amou...
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I pad their paychecks because you can't live on what they make. --SUPERVISOR OF A FAST-FOOD PIZZA PLACE
Here is a book that tells the real story of the countless unsung heroes who bend or break the rules to help those millions of Americans with impossible schedules, paychecks, and lives. Whet... |
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Dr. Seuss & Co. Go to War: The World War II Editorial Cartoons of America's Leading Comic Artists
מאת Andre Schiffrin
And now, rescued from the newsprint where they moldered unseen for over half a century, we can turn to the cartoons that let us know what happens when Horton hears a heil. --ART SPIEGELMAN, PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF MAUS ON DR. SEUSS GOES TO WAR
Hailed by Entertai... |
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Beyond the Echo Chamber: How a Networked Progressive Media Can Reshape American Politics
מאת Jessica Clark
What do high-impact projects look like? What are the common goals against which success might be measured in the progressive media sector? --FROM BEYOND THE ECHO CHAMBER
In less than a decade, a new breed of progressive media projects--from the Huffington Post to Air America to Brave N... |
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Terrorism and the Constitution: Sacrificing Civil Liberties in the Name of National Security, Revised and Updated Edition
מאת David Cole
A chilling analysis of the constitutional costs of the new war on terrorism, from two leading experts.
Tracing the history of government intrusions on Constitutional rights in response to threats from abroad, Cole and Dempsey warn that a society in which civil liberties are sacrificed i... |
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Although acceptance of difference is on the rise in America, it’s the rare gay or lesbian person who has not been demeaned because of his or her sexual orientation, and this experience usually starts at home, among family members.Whether they are excluded from family love and approval, expect...
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