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Graduation Gift Guide: 2018 Edition

May 25, 2018

Graduates across the country are heading off to new adventures and new stages of their education or careers. If you’re looking for the perfect book this season for the graduate in your life, check out our graduation gift guide with recommendations from our catalog. Remember that you can always browse our website for more inspiration titles. Read more →

Posted at 03:38 PM in Activism, Adam Eichen, Alex Shoumatoff, American Society, An African American and Latinx History of the United States, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States, Angela Saini, Barron H. Lerner, Biography and Memoir, Christopher Emdin, Danielle Ofri, Daring Democracy, Eileen Pollack, Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality, For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood, Frances Moore Lappé, History, History Teaches Us to Resist, In Defense of Women, Inferior, Junk Raft, Lani Guinier, Marcus Eriksen, Mary Frances Berry, Nancy Gertner, Now More Than Ever, Paul Ortiz, Politics and Current Events, Progressive Education, Race and Ethnicity in America, Robert Fried, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Science and Medicine, The Good Doctor, The Only Woman in the Room, The Passionate Teacher, The Wasting of Borneo | | Comments (0)

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A State of the Union Reading List

January 22, 2015

Putting the State of the Union in context: Eight books you should read. Read more →

Posted at 05:30 PM in Activism, American Society, Amy Seidl, Aviva Chomsky, Billionaires’ Ball, Dreamers, Early Spring, Eileen Truax, Environment and Conservation, Eric Schwarz, Harvest the Wind, Lani Guinier, Linda McQuaig, Nan Mooney, Neil Brooks, Not Keeping Up with Our Parents, Philip Warburg, The Opportunity Equation, The Tyranny of the Meritocracy, Undocumented | | Comments (0)

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Four Books to Read in January

January 02, 2015

In our January releases, we explore a geopolitical conservation effort, redefine the source of hatred and hate-driven violence, return Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to his radical roots, and expose the hypocrisy of “merit-based” admissions practices. These are books you will be thinking about and discussing for the rest of the year. Read more →

Posted at 02:30 PM in American Society, Blood of the Tiger, Considering Hate, Cornel West, Environment and Conservation, J. A. Mills, Kay Whitlock, Lani Guinier, Martin Luther King, Jr., Michael Bronski, Queer Perspectives, Race and Ethnicity in America, The Radical King, The Tyranny of the Meritocracy | | Comments (0)

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