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In this catalog alone, we present titles that join the key debates of our current moment. Defending My Enemy is a full-throated reminder that the most important test of free speech is whether we are willing to extend it to the thought we hate. Burned by Billionaires investigates the damage that billionaires inflit on our government, our environment, and our way of life. And the Dragons Do Come shows us the human beings endangered by the overheated rhetoric of the antitrans bill debates, reminding us that these laws do real damage to our most vulnerable citizens, our children. And on a hopeful note, In Our Future We Are Free traces the road map to a key progressive victory, detailing the success that activists, parents, and incarcerated children themselves have had in reducing the number of young people punished by imprisonment.
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Demolition Agenda
The Dismantling of American Government...and How We Can Stop It
THOMAS O. MCGARITY
REVISEDANDUPDATED
NOW IN PAPERBACK A COMPREHENSIVE ACCOUNT OF THE FIRST TRUMP ADMINISTRATION’S EFFORTS TO DESTROY OUR GOVERNMENT INSTITUTIONS, AND WHAT WE CAN DO BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE
Praise for the hardcover edition of Demolition Agenda:
The sort of book that journalists, activists, and historians may want to keep on their shelves— forever.
FORBES
A behind-the-scenes look at a program of social destruction carried on with little fanfare— and to devastating effect.
KIRKUS REVIEWS
Backed by solid research and deep knowledge of regulatory law, this is a persuasive argument for the power of government to make a positive impact.
—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Recently published
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5 1⁄2” x 8 1⁄2”, 368 pages
Current Affairs & Politics (Hardcover edition: 978-1-62097-639-5)
Demolition Agenda presents chilling details of what happened to health science, environmental science, and consumer protection agencies when President Donald J. Trump put his “best people” in charge.
FORBES MAGAZINE
In the wake of a return to Trump-era governance, what Forbes Magazine calls the “wealth of solid information” to be found in Thomas O. McGarity’s Demolition Agenda is more urgent than ever. Now available in a revised and updated edition, this groundbreaking work offers a comprehensive look at how the first Trump administration systematically dismantled the country’s regulatory agencies, exposing Americans to greater risks while empowering corporate interests.
From Scott Pruitt’s corruption scandal at the EPA to Elaine Chao’s weakening of transportation safety measures, and Ryan Zinke’s stint as secretary of the interior before he faced eighteen federal inquiries and was fired (and let’s not forget Rick Perry, Betsy DeVos, Sonny Perdue, Andrew Puzder...the list goes on), McGarity “writes authoritatively and with revealing detail” (Ralph Nader) about the abuses of power that defined the first Trump administration.
A new preface and a new final chapter tell us what to expect in round two...and how to protect ourselves from the demolition agenda.
Thomas O. McGarity is the William Powers Jr. and Kim L. Heilbrun Chair in Tort Law at the University of Texas at Austin School of Law and the past president of the Center for Progressive Reform. He is the author of Pollution, Politics, andPower; Freedom to Harm; and The Preemption War, among other books. He lives in Austin, Texas.
PAPERBACK A NEW EDITION OF THE MOST IMPORTANT FREE SPEECH BOOK OF THE PAST HALF-CENTURY, WITH A NEW ESSAY BY THE AUTHOR ON THE ENSUING FIFTY YEARS OF FIRST AMENDMENT CONTROVERSIES
If Aryeh Neier had done nothing else in his absolutely towering human rights, civil liberties career other than write Defending My Enemy, that still would’ve made him a hero and a giant. —NADINE STROSSEN, FORMER PRESIDENT, AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION
When Nazis wanted to express their right to free speech in 1977 by marching through Skokie, Illinois—a town with a large population of Holocaust survivors—Aryeh Neier, then the national director of the ACLU and himself a Holocaust survivor—came to the Nazis’ defense. Explaining what many saw as a despicable bridge too far for the First Amendment, Neier spelled out his thoughts about free speech in his 1977 book Defending My Enemy.
Now, nearly fifty years later, Neier revisits the topic of free speech in a volume that includes his original essay along with an extended new piece addressing some of the most controversial free speech issues of the past half-century including the “Unite the Right” march in Charlottesville, campus protest over the Gaza war, book banning, trigger warnings, right-wing hate speech, the heckler’s veto, and the recent attempts by public figures including Donald Trump to overturn the long-standing The New York Times v.Sullivan precedent shielding the media from libel claims.
Including a foreword by Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton and an afterword by longtime free speech champion Nadine Strossen, Defending My Enemy offers razor-sharp analysis from the man Muck Rack describes as having “a glittering civil liberties résumé.”
Aryeh Neier has been the National Director of the American Civil Liberties Union, a co-founder of Human Rights Watch, and the President of the Open Societies Institute. He is the author of seven books on civil and human rights. Nadine Strossen is a professor at New York Law School and the former president of the ACLU. Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton has served in Congress representing the District of Columbia since 1991 and was the first woman to chair the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
Praise for the original edition of Defending My Enemy:
A powerful reminder of why free speech matters—not just for the voices we agree with, but for the voices we abhor.
GREG LUKIANOFF, PRESIDENT AND CEO, FOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION (FIRE)
Each generation needs its own leadership equipped to explain, in terms their generation can understand, that the First Amendment right to speak must be reciprocal.
—FROM THE FOREWORD BY CONGRESSWOMAN ELEANOR HOLMES NORTON
At the cutting edge of what it means to be a civil libertarian ... Neier’s writing and thinking are as lucid as his commitment is profound.
$17.99 / $23.99 CAN 5 1⁄2” x 8 1⁄2”, 208 pages Political Science/Democracy
Kure
Atoll
Covering almost one million square kilometers (the area of Mongolia or Iran), the North Pacific gyre contains roughly 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic. In many East Asian countries, 75-90 percent of plastic washes into the ocean. In the United States, only 2 percent of plastics do, but consumption is so high that the U.S. is the twentieth worst ocean polluting country in the world.
Covering almost one million square kilometers (the area of Mongolia or Iran), the North Pacific gyre contains roughly 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic. In many East Asian countries, 75 to 90 percent of plastic washes into the ocean. In the United States, only 2 percent of plastics do, but consumption is so high that the U.S. is the twentieth worst ocean polluting country in the world.
North Pacific gyre or “Great Pacific Garbage Patch”
Papah a naumoku a kea National Marine Sanctuary
Kilograms of plastic per square kilometer
The Atlas of Disappearing Places
Our Coasts and Oceans in the Climate Crisis
CHRISTINA CONKLIN AND MARINA PSAROS
NOW IN PAPERBACK A BEAUTIFUL AND ENGAGING GUIDE TO GLOBAL WARMING’S IMPACT AROUND THE WORLD
The rare coffee table book that’s also a call to arms.
CHICAGO REVIEW OF BOOKS
Our planet is in peril. Seas are rising, oceans are acidifying, ice is melting, coasts are flooding, species are dying, and communities are faltering. Despite these dire circumstances, most of us don’t have a clear sense of how the interconnected crises in our ocean are affecting the climate system, food webs, coastal cities, and biodiversity, and which solutions can help us co-create a better future.
“Engaging and...enraging” (San Francisco Chronicle), The Atlas of Disappearing Places depicts twenty locations across the globe under siege from four different climate impacts. Each chapter paints a portrait of an existential threat in a particular place, weaving together contemporary stories and speculative “future histories” with beautiful, full-color illustrations to offer “suggestions for practical ways to reduce climate impact” (Foreword Reviews).
As the effects of climate change continue to become clearer, and the time to reverse it slips further away, The Atlas of Disappearing Places is “a striking and deeply researched work of art and environmental activism” (BookPage) that will inspire readers to take on the greatest fight of our lives.
Christina Conklin is an artist, writer, and researcher who investigates the intersection of natural and belief systems. She lives with her husband and two children in Half Moon Bay, California. Marina Psaros is a sustainability expert, amateur cartographer, ocean advocate, and one of the creators of The King Tides Project. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Beautiful maps and hopeful vignettes about the future temper this important book about climate change in our world.
LIBRARY JOURNAL
A colorful global tour filled with artistic maps and imagined views from a 2050 when many problems have been addressed.
BLOOMBERG
A beautiful work of art and an indispensable resource to learn more about the devastating consequences of the climate crisis, The Atlas of Disappearing Places will engage and inspire readers on the most pressing issue of our time.
$20.99 / $27.99 CAN 8” x 10”, 240 pages with 4/c art throughout Environment (Hardcover edition: 978-1-62097-456-8)
Africonomics
A History of Western Ignorance
BRONWEN EVERILL
A BOLD, CONCISE HISTORY OF WESTERN ECONOMIC INTERVENTIONS IN AFRICA, BY THE FORMER DIRECTOR OF THE CENTRE OF AFRICAN STUDIES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
Advance praise for Africonomics:
A thought-provoking analysis of Africa’s relationship with economic imperialism.
—ASTRID MADIMBA AND CHINNY UKATA, AUTHORS OF IT’S A CONTINENT
Outstandingly analyzes the shortcomings of a certain approach to thinking about Africa, and ... implicitly indicates the other side of the coin: the forces for change that will continue to shape the continent from within.
—KOFI ADJEPONG-BOATENG, CENTRE FOR FINANCIAL HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
Praise for Bronwen Everill’s Not Made by Slaves: Impressive.
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
A penetrating new perspective on abolition in the British Empire.
JACOBIN
September
Hardcover, 978-1-62097-975-4
Ebook, 979-8-89385-007-9
$34.99 / $45.99 CAN
5 1⁄2” x 8 1⁄2”, 320 pages History
A wry, rollicking, and provocative history.
—MICHAEL TAYLOR, AUTHOR OF THE INTEREST
For centuries, Westerners have tried to “fix” African economies. From the abolition of slavery onward, missionaries, philanthropists, development economists, and NGOs have arrived on the continent, full of good intentions and bad ideas. Their experiments have invariably gone awry, to the great surprise of all involved.
Historian Bronwen Everill argues that these interventions fail, and frequently cause harm, because they start from a misguided premise: that African economies just need to be more like the West. Ignoring Africa’s own traditions of economic thought, Americans and Europeans assumed a set of universal economic laws that they thought could be applied anywhere. They enforced specifically Western ideas about growth, wealth, debt, unemployment, inflation, women’s work, and more, and used Western metrics to find African countries wanting.
The West does not know better than African nations how an economy should be run. By laying bare the myths and realities of our tangled economic history, Africonomics moves from Western ignorance to African knowledge.
Bronwen Everill is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the former director of the Centre of African Studies at the University of Cambridge. Her writing has appeared in Foreign Policy, the Times Literary Supplement, and Smithsonian Magazine. She is the author of Not Made by Slaves and Abolition and Empire in Sierra Leone and Liberia and currently teaches at the Princeton Writing Program. She lives in Princeton, New Jersey.
Dealing with the Dead
A Novel
ALAIN MABANCKOU
TRANSLATEDFROMTHEFRENCHBYHELENSTEVENSON
FROM ONE OF AFRICA’S GREATEST LIVING WRITERS, A GHOSTLY RECKONING WITH CONGOLESE HISTORY
Africa’s Samuel Beckett.
THE ECONOMIST
One day in the Congolese town of Pointe-Noire, Liwa Ekimakingaï wakes to find himself in a cemetery where, three days earlier, he had been buried at the age of twentytwo in a pair of flared purple trousers in which he is now trapped forever. All around him are the other residents of the cemetery, all of whom have their own complex stories of life and death to share.
Bewildered by his predicament and unwilling to relinquish his tender bond with his devoted grandmother, Liwa makes his way back home to see her one last time, against all spectral advice. As he does, disturbing rumors swirl together with Liwa’s jumbled memories of his last night on earth, leading him to try and solve the mystery of his own untimely demise.
Sure to appeal to readers of George Saunders’s Lincoln in the Bardo, Dealing with the Dead is an exuberant, phantasmagorical tale of ambition, community, and forces beyond human control, and a scathing satire on corruption and political violence by one of the most-recognized chroniclers of modern Central Africa.
Alain Mabanckou was born in Congo and currently lives in Los Angeles, where he teaches literature at UCLA. He is the author of fourteen novels, including Black Moses and The Death of Comrade President and the memoir The Lights of Pointe-Noire (all published by The New Press). Helen Stevenson is a writer and translator who has translated works by Marie Darrieussecq, Alice Ferney, and Catherine Millet. She lives in the United Kingdom.
Praise for Alain Mabanckou’s Black Moses:
One of the most compelling books you’ll read in any language this year.
ROLLING STONE
Heartbreaking ... abounds with moments of black humor but the levity is balanced by Mabanckou’s portrait of a dysfunctional society rent by corruption.
NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
Vivid and funny.
NEW YORK MAGAZINE
An orphan story with biting humor ... as pointed as it is funny.
LOS ANGELES TIMES
The story’s unflinching tone and sly humor belie the tragedy of Moses’s situation, as well as the cruelty of the people he meets.
THE NEW YORKER
September
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“There’s an African proverb that states: ‘If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.’ Lisa Lawson calls on us to go fast, go far, and go together. It is a mindset that often goes endorsed, but rarely enacted. . . .
No child finds fulfillment on their own. Our children’s successes are the product of the entire village, working together to realize the immense aspirations we hold for the next generation. That message is at the heart of this book.”
— MARYLAND GOVERNOR WES MOORE
Thrive
How the Science of the Adolescent Brain Helps Us Imagine a Better Future for All Children
LISA M. LAWSON WITHAFOREWORDBYMARYLANDGOVERNORWESMOORE
A BOLD NEW ARGUMENT FOR HARNESSING BRAIN SCIENCE IN SERVICE OF OUR YOUTH, FROM THE NOTED BUSINESS AND FOUNDATION LEADER
In the last decade, a growing body of longitudinal neuroimaging research has demonstrated that adolescence is a period of continued brain growth and change, challenging longstanding assumptions that the brain was largely finished maturing by puberty.
—NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH
At nine, a boy named Sixto Cancel was adopted by a woman who kept a lock on her refrigerator and was verbally abusive. Meanwhile, extended and loving family members lived just an hour away—and would have taken him in if a public system had made an effort to find them. Sixto moved in and out of broken households for years, one of the hundreds of thousands of young Americans who lack the relationships that new breakthroughs in adolescent brain science have shown to be essential to succeeding in adulthood.
A major new book for parents and policymakers alike, Thrive argues that how we understand the unequal experiences of adolescence holds the key to ensuring that all children have an equal chance of becoming successful adults. Drawing on her deep engagement with public systems and youth as head of the Annie E. Casey Foundation, author Lisa M. Lawson condenses a broad range of brain science, exploring the personal and institutional structures every child needs, as well as the shocking gaps in our systems for disadvantaged children.
Arguing that we all have a shared stake in helping young people navigate the road to adulthood, Lawson lays out the ways that families, government, nonprofits, and business can draw lessons from science—and take steps to help all young people thrive.
Elected in 2023 by Inside Philanthropy as one of the 50 most powerful women in U.S. philanthropy, Lisa M. Lawson is the president and chief executive officer of the Annie E. Casey Foundation. She spearheaded Casey’s Thrive by 25 effort, which aims to improve adolescents transition to adulthood. She lives in Baltimore and this is her first book.
Understanding the adolescent brain:
• Adolescence is not complete until age 26, or even 30 in men.
• Physical changes associated with puberty precede brain maturing and development, causing teens to be perceived as adults long before their brains reach that point.
• Executive function (planning, following directions, meeting goals) takes a full ten years to develop, well past the teen years.
• Trauma and poverty-related stress strongly impact adolescent brain development.
$28.99 / $37.99 CAN 5 1⁄2” x 8 1⁄2”, 256 pages Education/Parenting
As Public as Possible Radical Finance for America’s Public Schools
DAVID I. BACKER
A WITTY
AND
PROVOCATIVE
TREATISE
ON THE FINANCIAL POLICIES WE’LL NEED TO MAKE OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS
WORK FOR ALL CHILDREN
A radical argument for truly public schools with real-world examples and future visions, including:
• Massachusetts’ 4% “millionaire’s tax,” which redistributes $2 billion a year for education and other public goods
• the Virginia Public School Authority’s loan pooling program, offering ailing districts interest rate subsidies
• proposals for a national investment bank, offering schools long-term, no-cost loans for capital improvements
• a Green New Deal for Schools, providing grants for green school infrastructure instead of current reliance on rapacious municipal bond markets
December
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5 1⁄2” x 8 1⁄2”, 224 pages Education
With the debate over the parameters of public schooling raging...there’s
rarely been a more crucial time to define what a truly public school system should look like—and what it would take
to get there.
—MARK LIEBERMAN, EDUCATION WEEK
From the anti-CRT panic to efforts to divert tax dollars to charter schools, the rightwing attack on education has cut deep. In response, millions of Americans have rallied to defend their cherished public schools. But this incisive book asks whether choosing between our embattled status quo and the stingy privatized vision of the Right is the only path forward. In As Public as Possible, education expert David I. Backer argues for going on the offensive by radically expanding the very notion of the “public” in our public schools.
Helping us to imagine a more just and equitable future, As Public as Possible proposes a concrete set of financial policies aimed at providing a high-quality and truly public education for all Americans, regardless of wealth and race. With witty and provocative prose, Backer shows how we can decouple school funding from property tax revenue, evening out inequalities across districts by distributing resources according to need. He argues for direct federal grants instead of the predations of municipal debt markets. And he offers eye-opening examples spanning the past and present, from the former Yugoslavia to contemporary Philadelphia, which help us to imagine a radically different way of financing the education of all of our children.
David I. Backer is an associate professor of education policy at West Chester University of Pennsylvania, an organizer, and a former high school teacher. He is the author of Althusser and Education and co-translated the philosopher Enrique Dussel’s Pedagogics of Liberation. He has written for publications including The American Prospect, n+1, Dissent, and Jacobin. He lives in Philadelphia.
Who’s Got the Power?
The Resurgence of American Unions
DAVE KAMPER WITHAFOREWORDBYSARAHNELSON
AN ESSENTIAL AND TIMELY GUIDE TO THE CHANGING LANDSCAPE OF THE LABOR MOVEMENT, FROM A VETERAN LABOR ORGANIZER
The best overview of the recent labor upsurge we have yet seen. This will remain a must-read as the movement advances into the future.
—ERIK LOOMIS, AUTHOR OF A HISTORY OF AMERICA IN TEN STRIKES
At the most inspiring moment for American unions in our lifetimes, Who’s Got the Power? takes readers on a journey through the resurgence of the American labor movement in the wake of a pandemic that changed everything. In the first two decades of the twenty-first century, unions seemed to be fading into history, with representation shrinking to levels unseen in over a hundred years. But the pandemic didn’t just disrupt the workplace; it reignited a movement.
Long-time organizer and labor historian Dave Kamper details how labor reemerged with newfound strength, as workers across industries began to question the status quo and demand more from their employers. Interviewing workers and labor leaders across the country, Kamper captures the stories of those on the front lines, from Frito-Lay workers in Kansas and Chicago teachers, to Amazon warehouse employees in New York and Detroit auto workers, offering a compelling account of how workers realized they held the power to reshape the terms of their employment. Kamper provides a front-row seat to a new wave of labor activism that isn’t just about wages and benefits—it’s about dignity and solidarity.
An up-to-the-minute look at a brand-new phenomenon, Who’s Got the Power? is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding the seismic changes in American labor today.
A senior strategist at the Economic Policy Institute, Dave Kamper is an organizer and writer with twenty-five years of experience working for unions in Pennsylvania, Illinois, and Minnesota. His writing has appeared in Jacobin, Labor Notes, and other progressive publications. He lives in Minnesota. Sarah Nelson is an American union leader who serves as the international president of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, AFL–CIO.
In 2023:
• The number of union election filings rose to 2,776, an increase of 187 from the previous year.
• 191,000 more workers were represented by a union.
• Private-sector union membership rose to 6.9%.
• Black workers had the highest unionization rate, and workers of color accounted for the entire increase in the union level.
• According to some estimates, more than 60 million workers want to join a union but were unable to do so.
$25.99 / $33.99 CAN 5 1⁄2” x 8 1⁄2”, 224 pages Sociology/Labor
The Road Was Full of Thorns
Running Toward Freedom in the American Civil War
TOM ZOELLNER
A RADICAL RETELLING OF THE DRAMA OF EMANCIPATION, FROM NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR AND WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD
Zoellner is a beautiful writer, a superb reporter, and a deep thinker.
THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW ON TOM ZOELLNER’S THE NATIONAL ROAD
In the opening days of the Civil War, three enslaved men approached the gates of Fort Monroe, a U.S. military installation in Virginia. In a snap decision, the fort’s commander “confiscated” them as contraband of war—and declared them free men. From then on, wherever the U.S. Army traveled, torrents of runaways rushed to secure their own freedom, a mass movement of 800,000 people—a fifth of the enslaved population of the South—that set the institution of slavery on a path to destruction.
In an engrossing work of narrative history, critically acclaimed historian Tom Zoellner introduces an unforgettable cast of characters whose stories will transform our popular understanding of how slavery ended. The Road Was Full of Thorns shows what emancipation looked and felt like for the people who made the desperate flight across dangerous territory: the taste of mud in the mouth, the terror of the slave patrols, and the fateful crossing into Union lines. Zoellner also reveals how the least powerful Americans changed the politics of war—forcing President Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation and opening the door to universal Black citizenship.
For readers of The 1619 Project—and anyone interested in the Civil War—The Road Was Full of Thorns is destined to reshape how we think about the story of American freedom.
Tom Zoellner is the author of nine nonfiction books, including Island on Fire, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for the best nonfiction book of 2020. He is a professor at Chapman University and an editor-at-large for the Los Angeles Review of Books. He lives in Los Angeles.
Praise for Tom Zoellner’s books:
A pounding narrative of events that led to the end of slavery in the British colonies. ...
Zoellner’s vigorous, fast-paced account brings to life a varied gallery of participants.
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
A book that reads more like a novel than a work of history.
5 1⁄2” x 8 1⁄2”, 320 pages with 11 b&w images U.S. History
Eating Behind Bars
Ending the Hidden Punishment of Food in Prison
LESLIE SOBLE WITH ALEX BUSANSKY, DR. AISHATU R. YUSUF, AND IMPACT JUSTICE
PAPERBACK ORIGINAL A VIVID EXPLORATION OF AN UNSEEN FOOD CRISIS AFFECTING MILLIONS OF AMERICANS
• Per-person spending on correctional food services has declined to $3 a day or less in many states.
• Some food arrives in boxes marked “not fit for human consumption.”
• Most people in prison rarely or never have access to fresh fruits and vegetables; instead, most food comes from a box, can, or bag.
• Rotten or spoiled food is not uncommon. People recall weevils in grits, rocks in turnip greens, maggots in meat, a rat tail buried in one day’s entrée, and oatmeal ladled up with human hair, pieces of metal, or cockroaches.
• Many states still discipline people by withholding meals or serving “the loaf,” a disgusting mash of incompatible foods.
October
Paperback, 978-1-62097-840-5
Ebook, 978-1-62097-937-2
$20.99 / $27.99 CAN
6 1⁄8” x 7 7⁄8”, 256 pages with images throughout Current Affairs & Politics
Of the seemingly endless tally of injustices of mass incarceration, one of the worst humiliations gets little attention from outside: the food.
—PATRICIA LEIGH BROWN, THE
NEW YORK
TIMES
Eating Behind Bars exposes the grim realities of food in U.S. prisons, where hunger, malnourishment, and food waste coexist with dehumanizing mealtime conditions. This disturbing portrait of eating behind bars came to light in 2020 when the nonprofit Impact Justice released the first-ever national examination of food in prison, catapulting the issue from the margins of prison litigation to the center of national conversations about mass incarceration and food justice. The result is this landmark book, revealing a crisis of nutrition, affecting the health of the millions of incarcerated Americans.
Grounded in riveting testimonials from formerly incarcerated people and accompanied by compelling photographs and illustrations, Eating Behind Bars documents the scarcity of fresh food in prison and high rates of diet-related disease and illness, often the result of the race to spend as little as possible. The authors propose innovative solutions including “farm to tray” programs, prison-based gardens, and chef-led initiatives to provide healthy, appealing food as a basic human right, challenging the broader system of mass incarceration.
Leslie Soble, an ethnographer and folklorist, leads Impact Justice’s Food in Prison Project and lives in Washington, DC. Alex Busansky is president and founder and lives in Berkeley. Dr. Aishatu R. Yusuf is vice president of innovation programs and lives in Oakland. Impact Justice is a nationally known not-for-profit with offices in Oakland, Los Angeles, and Washington, DC, challenging America’s obsession with endless punishment.
The Sexual Politics of Capitalism
A Global History
NANCY LINDISFARNE AND JONATHAN NEALE
A VAST AND FASCINATING CHRONICLE OF HOW GENDER AND SEXUALITY HAS BEEN USED TO DIVIDE PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD OVER THE LAST FIFTY YEARS
New movements are alive and moving in the world. Human beings in struggle are creating new feminisms, changing sexualities, and defying genocide. Hope stalks the heart. We have written this book for these new movements.
—FROM THE INTRODUCTION
The Sexual Politics of Capitalism offers a groundbreaking examination of how the global elite has used gender, sexuality, and violence to maintain control. Anthropologist Nancy Lindisfarne and writer Jonathan Neale trace the devastating effects of these tactics, showing how issues of gender and sexuality have been weaponized, especially since the 1980s, to make inequality appear inevitable, keeping the powerful in power and the marginalized fighting for survival.
Spanning the globe, Lindisfarne and Neale explore the lived experiences of those on the front lines of this struggle. The authors draw connections between diverse movements—union women in Nicaragua, farmers’ widows in India, and bar workers in Vietnam—showing how global forces of capitalism exploit gender and sexuality to maintain power.
With meticulous research and a passionate call for change, The Sexual Politics of Capitalism is more than a history—it is a manifesto for liberation. This radical work challenges us to confront the intimate and structural forces shaping our world and to join the fight for a more just and equitable future.
Nancy Lindisfarne is an anthropologist who previously studied and taught at SOAS University of London. Her most recent book, written with Richard Tapper, is Afghan Village Voices Jonathan Neale is an historian and professional writer. His most recent book is Fight the Fire: Green New Deals and Global Climate Jobs. They live in Oxford, England.
Praise for Nancy Lindisfarne and Jonathan Neale’s Why Men?: A Human History of Violence and Inequality:
An ambitious attempt to explain the origin of class and women’s oppression.
COUNTERFIRE
A brilliant, funny, unputdownable book for our times, spectacularly puncturing dominant myths about human nature.
—DANNY DORLING, AUTHOR OF PEAK INEQUALITY AND ALL THAT IS SOLID
A provocative counter-history of that elusive entity, “human nature.” This book gives us much to think about.
$34.99 / $45.99 CAN 5 1⁄2” x 8 1⁄2”, 320 pages Sexuality
Girls, Unlimited
How to Invest in Our Daughters with More Than Money
MONIQUE COUVSON
THE
BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF PUSHOUT MAKES A PERSONAL, COMPELLING CASE FOR HOW INVESTING IN GIRLS LEADS TO A BETTER WORLD FOR US ALL
Couvson is a force and a light.
—SUSAN BURTON, FOUNDER OF A NEW WAY OF LIFE AND AUTHOR OF BECOMING MS. BURTON
Girls, Unlimited is an insider-informed blueprint that weaves the author’s thirty-plus years of notes from the field—excerpts from interviews with girls and key stakeholders working with girls around the world—with her personal experience to expose how all girls, but especially girls of color, have been underserved. This groundbreaking book provides an illuminating guide to fostering strategies that prioritize the wellbeing and liberation of girls in the United States, offering practical insights into how such efforts can catalyze a more sustainable and democratic society.
Girls, Unlimited examines what is required to move past the “pocket change”level of giving to girls and young women and, instead, engage a more sincere engagement in the cultivation of conditions to resource girls abundantly—financially and otherwise—at the intersections of their identity. By reimagining how we invest in girls, we can shape a new landscape of opportunity, ensuring that every girl can thrive.
Monique Couvson (formerly Monique W. Morris), president/CEO of Grantmakers for Girls of Color and co-founder of the National Black Women’s Justice Institute, is the author of Pushout; Black Stats; Sing a Rhythm, Dance a Blues; and Charisma’s Turn (all from The New Press). Her work has been featured by NPR, the New York Times, MSNBC, Essence, The Atlantic, TED, the Washington Post, Education Week, and others. She lives in North Carolina.
Praise for Charisma’s Turn: Models the important ways many educators care about and uplift marginalized students who may feel overlooked and undervalued.
KIRKUS REVIEWS
Monique Couvson shows us once again how to release the powerful genius of Black girls.
—LISA DELPIT, MACARTHUR FELLOW AND AUTHOR OF “MULTIPLICATION IS FOR WHITE PEOPLE”: RAISING EXPECTATIONS FOR OTHER PEOPLE’S CHILDREN
Via a sympathetic protagonist who often feels overlooked, Couvson ... highlights mature ruminations on how best to support struggling teens.
A GRIPPING ACCOUNT OF ONE FAMILY’S BATTLE TO PROTECT THEIR DAUGHTER AGAINST TRANSPHOBIA AND HATE IN CONTEMPORARY AMERICA
Anti-trans bills under consideration and passed between 2021–2024:
2021: 143 bills considered; 18 passed
2022: 174 bills considered; 26 passed
2023: 604 bills considered; 87 passed
2024: 661 bills considered; 45 passed
In 2022, 44% of adults in the U.S. knew a trans person. That same year, around 300,000 people between the age of thirteen and seventeen identified as trans.
November
Hardcover, 978-1-62097-904-4
Ebook, 978-1-62097-994-5
$24.99 / $32.99 CAN
5 1⁄2” x 8 1⁄2”, 224 pages Memoir
For the good of society...transgenderism must be eradicated from public life entirely.
—MICHAEL
KNOWLES OF THE DAILY WIRE AT THE CONSERVATIVE POLITICAL ACTION CONFERENCE, QUOTED IN THE DAILY BEAST
Our country stands at a critical cultural crossroads, with a wave of anti-trans legislation emerging at unprecedented levels targeting trans children, in particular, who face increasing stigmatization and erasure. Sim Butler’s And the Dragons Do Come is a poignant account of one family’s experience of parenting and supporting a trans child against this nightmarish backdrop.
In recent years, the Butler family faced an impossible reality in their home state of Alabama, where trans rights are increasingly under attack. Butler recounts their family’s struggles and sacrifices to protect their trans child, Meg, against the barrage of state-sanctioned intolerance in the legal, educational, and health arenas. Around the time she turned twelve, Meg’s personal struggles became political fodder. Along with other trans kids, she was outlawed from playing sports and forbidden to use the girls’ bathroom at school. Another law made Butler and his wife felons for seeking trans-affirming health care for Meg. When her charter school was featured in several gubernatorial campaign ads, local community members began driving through the parking lot to yell at the trans kids.
Serving both as a compassionate story of one family’s struggle for acceptance and as a window onto a fraught issue that parents, grandparents, other family members, and friends are confronting across the nation, And the Dragons Do Come provides a firsthand perspective on the human cost of anti-trans sentiment.
Sim Butler is an associate professor at the University of Alabama. He lives with his family in South Carolina, and this is his first book.
Burned by Billionaires
How Concentrated Wealth and Power Are Ruining Our Lives and Planet
CHUCK COLLINS
AN EXPOSÉ OF THE HIDDEN IMPACT OF AMERICA’S ÜBER-WEALTHY ON THE COUNTRY’S ECONOMY, ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH, HOUSING MARKET, AND POLITICAL SYSTEM
The three hundred largest yachts in the world emit as much carbon dioxide as the 10 million inhabitants of Burundi.
—FROM BURNED BY BILLIONAIRES
Even if you don’t begrudge the ultra-rich their multiple vacation homes, yachts, and private jets, Burned by Billionaires chronicles how the actions of the top .01 percent have severe consequences for the rest of us. In chapters including “Road Map to Richistan” and “Extractavism,” upper-class traitor Chuck Collins, former heir to the Oscar Meyer fortune, takes down the “myth of meritocracy,” showing how the rich rig the game in their favor, resulting in an increasing concentration of wealth in the hands of a tiny (but growing) class of billionaires.
In a wholly original argument, Collins shows the impact the ultra-wealthy have on the rest of us: increasing the tax burden on ordinary working people; reducing public funding for schools, roads, and other essential infrastructure; shrinking the pool of affordable housing; and accelerating climate change with outsize emissions from super pollutant yachts and private jets. Perhaps worst of all, the concentration of wealth and power is leading to political capture, undermining the democratic principle that our votes matter equally.
Lively chapters feature charts, graphs, political cartoons, and more. A final chapter on “Reining in the Billionaires” offers concrete prescriptions for taking power back from the billionaire class.
Chuck Collins is a senior scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies and the author of several books, including Economic Apartheid in America (The New Press). He is a co-founder of Patriotic Millionaires, a group advocating for progressive economic policy in Tax the Rich! (2021) and Pay the People! (2024), also from The New Press. He lives in Vermont.
Billionaires by the numbers:
• Number of billionaires in the U.S. 1990: 66
• Number of billionaires today: 700
• Average tax rate for corporations in 2017: 22%
• Average tax rate for corporations today: 12.8%
• Loss to federal government since 2017 from tax cuts for billionaires: $240 billion
October
Hardcover, 978-1-62097-909-9
Ebook, 978-1-62097-996-9
$27.99 / $36.99 CAN
5 1⁄2” x 8 1⁄2”, 256 pages Economics/Social Science
Praise for Nell Bernstein’s Previous Books
BURNING DOWN THE HOUSE: THE END OF JUVENILE PRISON
Winner, 2015 Media for a Just Society Award
Winner, 2015 ABA Silver Gavel Award
Shortlisted, 2015 Ridenhour Book Prize
Honorable Mention, 2015 Scribes Book Award
“An excellent piece of advocacy.”
—Los Angeles Review of Books
“An unflinchig look at America’s unbalanced juvenile justice system.” Ebony
“An epic work of investigative journalism.”
— San Francisco Chronicle
ALL ALONE IN THE WORLD: CHILDREN OF THE INCARCERATED
A Newsweek “Book of the Week”
A San Francisco Chronicle “Book of the Year”
“A moving condemnation of the U.S. penal system and its effect on families.”
— Parents Press
“Meticulously reported and sensitively written.”
— Salon
“Belongs not only on shelves but also in the hands of judges and lawmakers.”
— San Francisco Chronicle
In Our Future We Are Free
Dismantling the Youth Prison
NELL BERNSTEIN
IN A MASTER CLASS IN SOCIAL CHANGE, THE AWARD–WINNING JOURNALIST RECOUNTS HOW A COALITION OF PARENTS, ACTIVISTS, AND PRISON OFFICIALS BROUGHT A RACIST AND DESTRUCTIVE INSTITUTION TO ITS KNEES
Nell Bernstein’s book could be for juvenile justice what Rachel Carson’s book was for the environmental movement.
—ANDREW COHEN, CORRESPONDENT, ABC NEWS, ABOUT BERNSTEIN’S BURNING DOWN THE HOUSE
Over the past twenty years, one state after another has shuttered its youth prisons and stopped trying kids as adults, slashing the number of children locked in cages by a stunning 75 percent. How did this remarkable change come about? In the sequel to her 2014 award-winning book Burning Down the House, journalist Nell Bernstein dissects the forces that converged to move us from a moral panic about “juvenile superpredators” to a time in which the youth prison is rapidly fading from view.
In Our Future We Are Free begins and ends with the imprisoned youth who took a leading role in their own liberation. Through vivid profiles, Bernstein chronicles the tireless work of mothers, activists, litigators, researchers, and journalists to expose and challenge the racist brutality of youth prisons—as well as the surprising story of prison officials who worked from the inside to close their institutions for good. The descriptions of how communities are pursuing safety, rehabilitation, and accountability outside of locked institutions offers a model for how we might overcome our addiction to incarceration writ large.
In Our Future We Are Free is essential reading for anyone wanting to understand how large-scale social change happens.
Nell Bernstein is an investigative journalist and winner of a White House Champion of Change award. She is the author of Burning Down the House and All Alone in the World (both from The New Press). Her articles have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Newsday, Salon, Mother Jones, and USA Today. She lives in Albany, California.
• Number of kids locked up in 2000: 108,802
• Number of kids locked up in 2022: 25,000
Accolades for Nell Bernstein’s Burning Down the House:
• Winner, 2015 Media for a Just Society Award
• Winner, 2015 ABA Silver Gavel Award
• Shortlisted, 2015 Ridenhour Book Prize
• Honorable Mention, 2015 Scribes Book Award
An epic work of investigative journalism.
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
An unflinching look at America’s unbalanced juvenile justice system. EBONY
November Hardcover, 978-1-62097-733-0 Ebook, 978-1-62097-992-1
$29.99 / $38.99 CAN
5 1⁄2” x 8 1⁄2”, 336 pages Law/Current Affairs
Shine
Portraits in Queer Resilience, Embracing New Dimensions
ASAFE GHALIB
PAPERBACK ORIGINAL A DEEPLY PERSONAL WORK OF PHOTOJOURNALISM FROM ONE OF BRITAIN’S MOST EXCITING YOUNG PHOTOGRAPHERS WORKING TODAY
The power and intensity of Asafe’s work are recognizable from the first instance of setting eyes on his images. The activism that underpins it makes for an even more impactful aesthetic.
—IZABELA
RADWANSKA ZHANG, EDITORIAL DIRECTOR OF BRITISH JOURNAL OF PHOTOGRAPHY
For many queer people, exile begins at home. The search for safety and freedom to express themselves drives millions of LGBTQIA+ people across borders. Their stories are full of contrasts—between isolation and community, freedom and nostalgia.
In their stunning compositions, photographer Asafe Ghalib explores the identities of members of the LGBTQIA+ immigrant community in Britain with striking beauty and poise. Brought up in a religious family, Ghalib draws from their own experience of leaving Brazil behind to depict the rich lives of their subjects who live at the intersections of multiple cultures. Their work, which evokes black-and-white newspaper photographs and classic portraiture that has been present since the dawn of photography, immortalizes the lives of a community that has been misrepresented for decades.
The latest in a groundbreaking series of photobooks that highlight queer lives and communities around the world, Shine invites the viewer to enter the world of Britain’s many queer communities and, in doing so, to challenge common misconceptions and prejudices about LGBTQIA+ people. An act of both confrontation and pride, this book is also an exploration of immigration as a human right and, above all, a celebration of the triumphs of a defiant community.
Asafe Ghalib (they/them) is an artist from Brazil and has been based in London since 2013. They work primarily with the medium of photography in collaboration with the LGBTQIA+ community. Their work has appeared in The Guardian, Vogue Australia, Dazed, Perfect Magazine, Gay Times, and a range of other venues.
People: Portraits from LGBTQ Armenia, Georgia, and Russia Ksenia Kuleshova
8” x 10”, 160 pages with photos throughout Photography/Gay & Lesbian
Transcend: Freedom to Love Sandra Chen Weinstein Paperback, $21.99, 978-1-62097-883-2
Believable: Traveling with My Ancestors Lola Flash Paperback, $21.99, 978-1-62097-753-8
Ordinary
Paperback,
Practical Radicals
Seven Strategies to Change the World
DEEPAK BHARGAVA AND STEPHANIE LUCE
NOW IN PAPERBACK “A VITAL RESOURCE”—CONGRESSWOMAN PRAMILA JAYAPAL
Luce and Bhargava treat strategy as a craft that can be learned, and they aim to strengthen the strategic muscles of movement participants.
DISSENT
A deeply informed and comprehensive analysis of contemporary American social movements. Activists and organizers especially need to read this book, but so do the rest of us.
—FRANCES FOX PIVEN
From Dictatorship to Democracy: A Conceptual Framework for Liberation
Gene Sharp Paperback, $14.99, 978-1-59558-850-0
September
Paperback, 978-1-62097-981-5
Ebook, 978-1-62097-993-8
$24.99 / $32.99 CAN 6” x 9”, 496 pages
Current Affairs & Politics
(Hardcover edition: 978-1-62097-821-4)
Progressive activists will want to dog-ear, underline, and pore over this well-conceived handbook.
KIRKUS REVIEWS
How do underdogs, facing far stronger opponents, sometimes win? In the tradition of Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals and Sun Tzu’s The Art of War, Practical Radicals offers winning strategies, history, and theory for a new generation of activists.
Based on interviews with leading organizers, Practical Radicals combines “the hard-earned wisdom of our movement ancestors, the rigorous theory of serious practitioners and academics and the functional tools organizers need to spring into action” (In These Times). Incorporating stories of organizations and movements that have won, including Make the Road NY, the St. Paul Federation of Educators, the welfare rights movement, New Georgia Project, Occupy Wall Street, 350.org, the Fight for 15, and Gay Men’s Health Crisis, Practical Radicals “takes inspiration from successful social movements to identify tactics that pay off” (The Guardian).
With a sweeping new afterword by the authors addressing the challenges of 2025 and beyond, the book provides a toolkit for underdogs looking to resist authoritarianism and to win alternatives. At a time of immense uncertainty, “this crucial book is for everyone who cares about the future of racial, gender, and economic justice and the future of democracy” (Dorian Warren, president of Community Change).
Deepak Bhargava has been an organizer and campaigner for over thirty years. A former Distinguished Lecturer at CUNY, president and executive director of Community Change, and senior fellow at the Roosevelt Institute, he is now president of the Freedom Together Foundation. Stephanie Luce is a professor of Labor Studies and Sociology at CUNY and the author of numerous books on the labor movement and the living wage. Both authors live in New York City.
Fair Game Trans Athletes and the Future of Sports
ELLIE ROSCHER AND DR. ANNA BAETH FOREWORDBYCHRISMOSIER
A TIMELY, ILLUMINATING PLAN FOR HOW TRANS AND CIS ATHLETES CAN BOTH FAIRLY PLAY SPORTS
This is not about sports—it’s about politics.
—CHRIS MOSIER, THE FIRST TRANSGENDER ATHLETE TO QUALIFY FOR THE OLYMPIC TRIALS IN THE GENDER WITH WHICH THEY IDENTIFY
Fair Game offers an insightful, timely examination of the ongoing battle for equality in athletics. As LGBTQ athletes break barriers in the Olympics, transgender athletes still face harsh restrictions in many areas. With twenty-four states passing anti-trans sports legislation in the last two years, nearly half of Americans live under laws that restrict or ban transgender individuals from participating in sports. Fair Game explores why taking the next step and increasing the acceptance of trans athletes is important not only for everyone with an Olympic dream but also everyone whose kids just want to join the town soccer league.
Fair Game explores the role of sports in the lives of transgender youth and adults, offering a comprehensive, nuanced, and multi-voiced picture of the transgender athletic experience. Through a woven collection of the narratives from a marginalized population, Fair Game examines the patterns of fear and gender stereotypes that undergird anti-trans legislation and offers helpful historical and political context about sex segregation in sports and how bodies (including trans bodies) work in sports.
Timely, accessible, inspiring, and rigorous, Fair Game presents a sports landscape beyond our current conceptions, a world changed by unrestricted and joyful movement in sports.
Ellie Roscher (she/they), is a writer, educator, podcaster, coach, and speaker. She was a two-sport college athlete, is the author of several books, and lives in Minneapolis. Dr. Anna Baeth (she/her) is a critical feminist scholar and a cultural studies practitioner of sport. She is the director of Research at Athlete Ally and lives in Northampton, Massachusetts. Chris Mosier (he/him) is the first transgender athlete to represent the United States in International competition, the first transgender athlete in the ESPN Body Issue, and the first transgender athlete sponsored by Nike.
• 25 states have laws banning transgender students from participating in sports consistent with their gender identity.
• Transgender students in states with fully inclusive athletic policies were 14 percentage points less likely to have considered suicide in the past year than students in states with no guidance.
January
Hardcover, 978-1-62097-978-5
Ebook, 979-8-89385-005-5
$29.99 / $38.99 CAN 5 1⁄2” x 8 1⁄2”, 304 pages Sports/Gender Studies
The Unfinished Business of 1776
Why the American Revolution Never Ended
THOMAS RICHARDS JR.
A CLARION CALL FOR TAKING BACK THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION FROM THE FAR RIGHT, PUBLISHED FOR THE 250TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
Academic historians who write about the Founding Fathers focus on their many imperfections, while authors aiming at the mass market seldom stray from the Founders’ lofty ideals. Thomas Richards thinks readers can handle both.
—WOODY HOLTON, AUTHOR OF LIBERTY IS SWEET
Who gets to claim the legacy of the American Revolution and the mantle of patriotism that goes along with it? In a sharp, irreverent, deeply informed account of the nation’s founding moment and its enduring legacies, historian Thomas Richards invites us to see the Revolution not just as a one-time fight for political freedom from Britain, but as an ongoing struggle for equality, justice, and social and political independence for all Americans.
A riveting work of narrative history, The Unfinished Business of 1776 shows that the Revolutionary struggle did not end in 1787 when the Constitution was ratified: across ten dramatic chapters, Richards introduces readers to the vividly drawn characters who kept the Revolution alive for the next century and beyond, including the women’s rights advocate Judith Sargent Murray, the enslaved rebel Gabriel, the protosocialist Solomon Sharp, and the utopian dreamer Joseph Smith—each pushing for freedoms that extended well beyond the traditional narrative of the Revolution, and each revealing how the unfinished work of 1776 fueled demands for economic, social, and legal equality that lasted well beyond the Revolution itself.
A myth-busting book about the history we think we know, The Unfinished Business of 1776 is the perfect antidote to jingoistic celebrations of America—offering an inclusive vision of our common past.
Thomas Richards Jr. teaches history at Springside Chestnut Hill Academy in Philadelphia and holds a PhD in History from Temple University. He is the author of Breakaway Americas: The Unmanifest Future of the Jacksonian United States and lives in Gulph Mills, Pennsylvania, where George Washington once camped.
Thomas Richards understands that Americans have never stopped battling over the meaning and substance of the American Revolution. Telling the story through a diverse cast of individuals who encompass an expansive geography and who illustrate lasting revolutionary ideas and issues is a terrific idea.
—DAVID WALDSTREICHER, AUTHOR OF SLAVERY’S CONSTITUTION AND THE ODYSSEY OF PHILLIS WHEATLEY
Praise for Thomas Richards’s Breakaway Americas:
Richards’s account of settlers who moved beyond the boundaries of the country won’t settle arguments; it will start some, however, which will make this a book that matters.
—STEPHEN ARON, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES, AND AUTHOR OF THE AMERICAN WEST: A VERY SHORT INTRODUCTION
No One Can Silence Me: The Life of the Legendary Artist and Activist (Adapted for Young Adults)
MARTIN DUBERMAN
WITHAFORWARDBYJASONREYNOLDS
NOW IN PAPERBACK COMMEMORATING THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF PAUL ROBESON’S DEATH, A YOUNG ADULT VERSION OF HIS LIFE, BASED ON THE BIOGRAPHY THAT USA TODAY CALLED “MAGNIFICENT”
A powerful tribute to this #BlackLivesMatter predecessor.
BOOKLIST (STARRED REVIEW)
Comprehensive and useful. SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL
An inspiring work that new generations of activists will savor.
AUDIOFILE
Praise for the original Paul Robeson by Martin Duberman, from which this young adult version was adapted:
Enthralling. . . . A marvelous story marvelously told.
WASHINGTON POST
Splendid. LIBRARY TIMES
The definitive work.
STUDS TERKEL
January
Paperback, 978-1-62097-984-6
Ebook, 978-1-62097-661-6
$17.99 / $23.99 CAN
5 1⁄2” x 8 1⁄2”, 288 pages
African American Studies/U.S. History (Hardcover edition: 978-1-62097-649-4)
A history of a global luminary figure that serves as a reminder of the courageous freedom-fighting work in front of us.
KIRKUS REVIEWS (STARRED REVIEW)
Adapted from Martin Duberman’s “superb” (New York Times) biography of Paul Robeson, and featuring an introduction by award-winning young adult author Jason Reynolds, along with explanations of key terms and photographs from Robeson’s life, this is a thrilling addition to the young adult canon.
Paul Robeson was destined for greatness. The son of an ex-slave who ranked first in his college class, Robeson was proclaimed the future “leader of the colored race in America.” A graduate of Columbia Law School, he abandoned his law career (and the racism he encountered there) and began a hugely successful career as an internationally celebrated actor and singer. Robeson’s triumphs on the stage earned him esteem among white and Black Americans across the country, although his daring and principled activism eventually made him an outcast from the entertainment industry, and his radical views made many consider him a public enemy.
Paul Robeson: No One Can Silence Me is an introduction for readers in middle and high school to the inspiring and complicated life of one of America’s most fascinating figures, whose story of artistry, heroism, conviction, and conflict is newly relevant today.
Martin Duberman is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History at the CUNY Graduate Center. The author of more than twenty books, Duberman has won a Bancroft Prize and been a finalist for both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. He lives in New York City. Jason Reynolds is the bestselling author of Ghost and Long Way Down, and the co-author, with Ibram X. Kendi, of Stamped. He is a Newbery Award Honoree and a two-time National Book Award finalist. He lives in Washington, DC.
The Problem with Plastic
How We Can Save
Ourselves
and Our Planet Before It’s Too Late
JUDITH ENCK AND BEYOND PLASTICS WITHADAMMAHONEY
A POWERFUL INVESTIGATION INTO PLASTIC’S IMPACT ON HUMAN HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT, AND HOW WE CAN FIGHT BACK
Fundamentally, most plastics are not recyclable. And you know who has known this for years? The companies that make and sell plastic.
—JUDITH ENCK, FOUNDER AND PRESIDENT OF BEYOND PLASTICS
What if the line between societal advancement and environmental degradation is as thin as a layer of plastic wrap? Once a marvel of modern science, over the last seventyfive years, plastic has cradled our planet in a synthetic embrace.
The Problem with Plastic critically examines the paradox of this material, first celebrated for its innovations and now recognized for its devastating environmental and public health impacts. This compelling narrative reveals how plastic pollution contributes to poisoned oceans, polluted air, and overwhelming waste, particularly affecting marginalized communities, which face the brunt of industrial pollution.
The Problem with Plastic also emphasizes the urgent need for action against plastic’s toxic legacy, and offers readers practical, actionable solutions, including a “Household Waste Audit,” which empowers readers to track and reduce their own plastic consumption.
Judith Enck is the founder and president of Beyond Plastics and served as regional administrator at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. She is a professor at Bennington College and lives in upstate New York. Adam Mahoney is the national climate and environment reporter at Capital B News. He lives in New Orleans. Beyond Plastics is a nationwide project that uses education, advocacy, and grassroots organizing to reduce the production and use of plastic.
• Sixteen thousand chemicals are used to make a variety of plastics.
• The plastic sector’s contribution to greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. is poised to surpass that of coal-fired power plants.
• 15 million tons of plastic enter the ocean every year.
• Less than 6% of all plastic was recycled in 2021.
• Microplastics have been found in the exhalations of dolphins.
December
Hardcover, 978-1-62097-945-7
Ebook, 978-1-62097-999-0
$26.99/$35.99 CAN
5 1⁄2” x 8 1⁄2”, 224 pages Environment
Restorative Justice Up Close
First-Person Accounts of an Approach That Works
EDITED BY SALLY SWARTHOUT WOLF WITHAFOREWORDBYHOWARDZEHR
A GROUNDBREAKING COMPILATION OF ACTUAL RESTORATIVE JUSTICE DIALOGUES, WITH A FOREWORD BY BESTSELLING AUTHOR HOWARD ZEHR, AUTHOR OF THE BESTSELLING THELITTLE BOOK OF RESTORATIVE JUSTICE
Includes stories of transformative restorative conferences in:
• K–12 schools and colleges
• Juvenile justice settings
• Sexual assault cases
• Hate crime mediation
• Vehicular manslaughter cases
• Prisoner rehabilitation
February
Hardcover, 978-1-62097-974-7
Ebook, 979-8-89385-003-1
$28.99 / $37.99 CAN
5 1⁄2” x 8 1⁄2”, 272 pages
Law
America’s best-kept secret of what justice should look like. —HOWARD ZEHR, AUTHOR OF THE LITTLE BOOK OF RESTORATIVE JUSTICE
The use of restorative justice is becoming more commonplace around the country. This practice brings victims together with offenders to discuss the impact of the offense, restore breaches of community, and draw up a plan for repair. Unlike proceedings in a court of law that prioritize punishment, restorative justice addresses victims’ desire for accountability, understanding, and healing.
But it is also a confidential process—rarely videotaped or accessible to those who want to know: What actually happens in a restorative justice session? Restorative Justice Up Close is the first book to relate stories of actual dialogues, in the words of participants. Affecting and direct, the book features stories from K–12 school staff about restorative circles that got to the root of misbehavior without suspensions, and from skeptical police and probation officers who learn that a facilitated dialogue can produce better outcomes than a prosecution ever could. And in stories that will make readers cry, Restorative Justice Up Close recounts meetings between survivors of violent crime and those responsible, where both parties emerge with a sense of relief and healing.
A book for educators, justice reformers, and anyone curious about a more humane approach to wrongdoing, Restorative Justice Up Close offers a compelling picture of what it truly means to “do justice.”
Sally Swarthout Wolf has more than twenty years of experience as a restorative justice practitioner, trainer, speaker, and leader. She is the former Director of Ford County Probation and Court Services and the co-founder of the Illinois Balanced and Restorative Justice Project. She lives in Ford County, Illinois. Howard Zehr is an emeritus professor of Restorative Justice at Eastern Mennonite University and the “grandfather” of the restorative justice movement. He is the author of The Little Book of Restorative Justice.
The New Jim Crow: 15 Years of Influence
Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools
Monique Couvson
Rap on Trial: Race, Lyrics, and Guilt in America
Erik Nielson and Andrea L. Dennis
Understanding E-Carceration: Electronic Monitoring, the Surveillance State, and the Future of Mass Incarceration
James Kilgore
Becoming Ms. Burton: From Prison to Recovery to Leading the Fight for Incarcerated Women
Susan Burton and Cari Lynn Foreword by Michelle Alexander
Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News
Alec Karakatsanis
The Miracle of Black Leg: Notes on Race, Human Bodies, and the Spirit of the Law
Patricia J. Williams
The New Black: What Has Changed—and What Has Not—with Race in America
Kenneth W. Mack and Guy-Uriel E. Charles
One Fair Wage: Ending Subminimum Pay in America
Saru Jayaraman
Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms
Maya Schenwar and Victoria Law Foreword by Michelle Alexander
Studs and Ida Terkel Award–Winning Titles
The Boy Who Could Change the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz
Aaron Swartz Awarded in 2016
Backroom Deals in Our Backyards: How Government Secrecy Harms Our Communities and the Local Heroes Fighting Back
Miranda S. Spivack Awarded in 2025
Refugee High: Coming of Age in America
Elly Fishman Awarded in 2021
Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret
Catherine Coleman Flowers Awarded in 2020
Lighting the Fires of Freedom: African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement
Janet Dewart Bell Awarded in 2018
Teeth: The Story of Beauty, Inequality, and the Struggle for Oral Health in America
Mary Otto Awarded in 2017
Chain of Title: How Three Ordinary Americans Uncovered Wall Street’s Great Foreclosure Fraud
David Dayen Awarded in 2016
Hold Fast to Dreams: A College Guidance Counselor, His Students, and the Vision of a Life Beyond Poverty
Beth Zasloff and Joshua Steckel Awarded in 2014
Framing Innocence: A Mother’s Photographs, a Prosecutor’s Zeal, and a Small Town’s Response Lynn Powell Awarded in 2010
Acclaimed and Award–Winning Backlist Titles
Becoming Ms. Burton: From Prison to Recovery to Leading the Fight for Incarcerated Women
Susan Burton and Cari Lynn Winner, 2018 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work
Named a “Best Book of 2017” by the Chicago Public Library
2015 Media for a Just Society Award— Book Category Winner, 2015 ABA Silver Gavel Award—Book Category
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Michelle Alexander
One of the New York Times Best Books of the 21st Century, 2024
2011 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Nonfiction
Longlisted, 2017
2017
In a Day’s Work: The Fight to End Sexual Violence Against America’s Most Vulnerable Workers
Bernice Young
Finalist, 2019 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction Winner, 2019 PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction
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Winner,
Black Moses: A Novel Alain Mabanckou
Man Booker International Prize Longlisted,
PEN Translation Prize
Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast Marjoleine Kars Winner, 2021 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Named one of the Best Books of the Year by NPR, 2021
Burning Down the House: The End of Juvenile Prison Nell Bernstein Winner,
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong James W. Loewen Winner, 1996 American Book Award Winner, 1996 Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship
Slave Old Man: A Novel Patrick Chamoiseau Winner, 2018 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for
Translation of a Literary Work, MLA Winner, 2019 Best Translated Book Award for Fiction
Slaves for Peanuts: A Story of Conquest, Liberation, and a Crop That Changed History
Jori Lewis Winner, 2023 Harriet Tubman Price Winner, 2023 James Beard Foundation Award
New Press Banned Books
Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings That Formed the Movement
Kimberlé Crenshaw, Neil T. Gotanda, Gary Peller, and Kendall Thomas
Cutting School: The Segrenomics of American Education Noliwe Rooks
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Young Readers’ Edition James Loewen
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness Michelle Alexander
No More Police: A Case for Abolition Mariame Kaba and Andrea J. Ritchie
Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools Monique Couvson
The New Press extends heartfelt thanks to the following philanthropic institutions for their support:
The Annie E. Casey Foundation
Arcus Gift Fund, a donor-advised fund of Fidelity Charitable
The California Endowment
The California Wellness Foundation
The Commonwealth Fund
Emerson Collective, an advised fund of Silicon Valley Community Foundation
The Ford Foundation
The Foundation to Promote Open Society at Open Society Foundations
Freedom Together Foundation
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
The Kresge Foundation
Meadow Fund, an advised fund of Silicon Valley Community Foundation
The Mellon Foundation, 2024–2025
National Basketball Social Justice Coalition
The New York State Council on the Arts*
Omidyar Network
The Polish Book Institute
Present Progressive Fund, a donor advised fund at DAFgiving360
Public Welfare Foundation
The San Francisco Foundation
The Schmidt Family Foundation
The Spencer Foundation
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