Or Books imprint: 64 books

Medea Benjamin is the author of the insightful and successful Kingdom of the Unjust: Behind the U.S.–Saudi Connection. This book is perhaps the first non-academic look at the history of US and Iranian relations––giving a complex issue an accessible entry point for a general audience.

Eastern Mediterranean Monday May 31st 2010 4.30am: Israeli commandos boarding from sea and air attack the six boats of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla as it sails through international waters bringing humanitarian relief to the beleaguered Palestinians of Gaza. Within minutes nine peace activists are dead...

ON APRIL 1 2011 in the pages of the Washington Post the international jurist Richard Goldstone dropped a bombshell. He effectively disowned the massive evidence assembled in the United Nations report carrying his name that Israel had committed multiple war crimes and possible crimes against humanity...

It's never easy being rich: endless tax avoidance the Sisyphean search for reliable domestic staff the never-ending burden of surly stares from the Great Sea of the Unwashed as one goes about one's rightful business. Toughest of all is simply keeping track of everything one owns. There's so much of...

the tech revolution is not a complete triumph: here, from a tech insider, is an informed critique of the sharing economy ammunition for growing number of critics of "disruptive" technology without store sales, this book has garnered serious attention (and sold more than 2,000...

**"Beautiful Rising offers insights and lessons for creative resistance from across the Global South, making it a crucial resource for change-makers."—Archbishop Desmond Tutu "Beyond a brilliantly innovative toolkit for making social change, you will find here a 'deep structure'...

Some thousands of years ago, the world was home to an immense variety of large mammals. From wooly mammoths and saber-toothed tigers to giant ground sloths and armadillos the size of automobiles, these spectacular creatures roamed freely. Then human beings arrived. Devouring their way down the food...

Five noted writers and thinkers profile five of the world’s leaders. For some of us, these leaders are heroes; for others, villains; for all of us—strongmen. We’re edging towards a new kind of global fascism driven by aggression and strident nationalism. In this energetic, focused book,...

In June 2011, Julian Assange received an unusual visitor: the chairman of Google, Eric Schmidt, arrived from America at Ellingham Hall, the country residence in Norfolk, England where Assange was living under house arrest. For several hours the besieged leader of the world’s most famous insurgent...

•A "biography of an idea," in the author's words, that won't go away: that the CIA was as committed to steering our culture as it was to masterminding coups and assassinations for which it is better known. •Among the key players in this ongoing story are some beloved writers:...

One of only a few feminist poetry anthologies in print Uniquely intersectional and diverse, with contributors from a wide range of racial, sexual, and gender identities Topics range from the immediate political climate to sexuality, motherhood, and theories of feminism

Forty years ago Walt Kellys comic strip character Pogo famously intoned: We have met the enemy and he is us. Now as the evidence for climate change becomes overwhelming we learn the hard reality behind that witticism. The possible destruction and certain transformation of the ecosphere has been brought...

Its spring in Ivyland . . .Debut novelist Miles Klee takes a landscape of drugs, decay, loss and, perhaps, hope, and manages to make the ensemble wryly funny: something only a few notable contemporaries such as Jeff Vandermeer and Michael Chabon have been able to do. Post-urban New Jersey is instantly...

In the early hours of Tuesday November 15th the Occupy Wall Street camp in New York was destroyed when police swept suddenly into the square, tearing down the tents, library, kitchen and medical center, and arresting hundreds. Already an extraordinary instant history of Occupy Wall Street from its inception...