The New Press: 370 books

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Any Way You Slice It

The Past, Present, and Future of Rationing

by Stan Cox
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013

Rationing: it’s a word-and idea-that people often loathe and fear. Health care expert Henry Aaron has compared mentioning the possibility of rationing to “shouting an obscenity in church.” Yet societies in fact ration food, water, medical care, and fuel all the time, with those who can pay the...
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Blood and Faith

The Purging of Muslim Spain

by Matthew Carr
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2009

In April 1609, King Philip III of Spain signed an edict denouncing the Muslim inhabitants of Spain as heretics, traitors, and apostates. Later that year, the entire Muslim population of Spain was given three days to leave Spanish territory, on threat of death. In a brutal and traumatic exodus,...
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Digital Disconnect

How Capitalism is Turning the Internet Against Democracy

by Robert W. McChesney
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013

Celebrants and skeptics alike have produced valuable analyses of the Internet’s effect on us and our world, oscillating between utopian bliss and dystopian hell. But according to Robert W. McChesney, arguments on both sides fail to address the relationship between economic power and the digital...
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Social Security Works!

Why Social Security Isn’t Going Broke and How Expanding It Will Help Us All

by Nancy Altman, Eric Kingson
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2015

A growing chorus of prominent voices in Congress and elsewhere are calling for the expansion of our Social Security system-people who know that Social Security will not “go broke” and does not add a penny to the national debt. Social Security Works! will amplify these voices and offer a powerful...
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Don't Trust, Don't Fear, Don't Beg

The Extraordinary Story of the Arctic 30

by Ben Stewart
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013

The true story of Greenpeace activists imprisoned in Russia—and the fight to free them: “A gripping story of tremendous courage that reads like a thriller” (Naomi Klein). “The most important prison motto is hope for the better, but every moment, literally every moment, be prepared for...
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The Stiglitz Report

Reforming the International Monetary and Financial Systems in the Wake of the Global Crisis

by Joseph E. Stiglitz
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010

The fact that our global economy is broken may be widely accepted, but what precisely needs to be fixed has become the subject of enormous controversy. In 2008, the president of the United Nations General Assembly convened an international panel, chaired by Nobel Prize–winning economist Joseph Stiglitz...
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Bitter Chocolate

Anatomy of an Industry

by Carol Off
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017

This shocking exposé of the corruption and exploitation at the heart of the multibillion-dollar cocoa industry is “an astounding eye-opener that takes no prisoners” (Quill & Quire, starred review). Bitter Chocolate is both an absorbing social history and a passionate investigation...
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Evil Paradises

Dreamworlds of Neoliberalism

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Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2011

Evil Paradises, edited by Mike Davis and Daniel Bertrand Monk, is a global guidebook to phantasmagoric but real places—alternate realities being constructed as “utopias” in a capitalist era unfettered by unions and state regulation. These developments—in cities, deserts, and in the middle of...
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The Smartphone

Anatomy of an Industry

by Elizabeth Woyke
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011

A technology reporter’s behind-the-scenes history of the device that has taken over our lives. How have smartphones shaped the way we socialize and interact? Who tracks our actions, our preferences, our movements as recorded by our smartphones? These are just some of the questions that Elizabeth...
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Hell No

Your Right to Dissent in Twenty-First-Century America

by Michael Ratner, Margaret Ratner Kunstler, Vincent Warren
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011

“Compelling and useful reading” for activists, protest groups, and individuals, from America’s leading constitutional rights group (Booklist). In the age of terrorism and under the current administration, the United States has become a much more dangerous place—for activists and dissenters,...
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Back to School

Why Everyone Deserves a Second Chance at Education

by Mike Rose
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007

“Shines a light on institutions that are teaching students, young and old, how to rebuild our economy and put America back to work” (President Bill Clinton). It’s a statistic that’s sure to surprise: Close to forty-five percent of postsecondary students in the United States today did...
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Black Stats

African Americans by the Numbers in the Twenty-first Century

by Monique W. Morris
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014

Black Stats-a comprehensive guide filled with contemporary facts and figures on African Americans-is an essential reference for anyone attempting to fathom the complex state of our nation. With fascinating and often surprising information on everything from incarceration rates, lending practices,...
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Economic Apartheid In America

A Primer On Economic Inequality & Insecurity

by Chuck Collins, Felice Yeskel, United for a Fair Economy
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011

This updated edition of the widely touted Economic Apartheid in America looks at the causes and manifestations of wealth disparities in the United States, including tax policy in light of the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts and recent corporate scandals. Published with two leading organizations dedicated...
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Ending Poverty in America

How to Restore the American Dream

by Michael S. Barr, Jared Bernstein, Anita Brown-Graham
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2009

**An “**engrossing collection of rigorously researched articles” from Elizabeth Warren, Jared Bernstein, William Julius Wilson, and more (Publishers Weekly). Can the wealthiest nation in the world do anything to combat the steadily rising numbers of Americans living in poverty—or the...
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